Ischaemum byrone

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FWS Digital Media Library — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Digital Library is a searchable collection of selected images, historical artifacts, audio clips, publications, and video.Ischaemum byrone is a rare species of grass known by the common name Hilo murainagrass, or Hilo ischaemum. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is present on Kauai, Maui, Molokai, and Hawaii. It was known from Oahu but it is now extirpated there. There are perhaps 1000 to 3000 individual plants remaining in total. This is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.Ischaemum is a genus of about 60 species in the Poaceae, or Grass family. Ischaemum byrone is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. There are some 50 species of native grasses in the Hawaiian Archipelago, of which at least forty are endemic. Two other non-native, naturalized Ischaemum species, I. indicum and I. timorense, occur on East Maui.