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- A kīpuka is an area of land surrounded by one or more younger lava flows. A kīpuka forms when lava flows on either side of a hill, ridge, or older lava...
- form. Another Hawaiian English term derived from the Hawaiian language, a kīpuka denotes an elevated area such as a hill, ridge or old lava dome inside or...
- with the common names Zahlbruckner's melicope, Zahlbruckner's pelea, and kipuka piaula, is a species of tree in the family Rutaceae. It is endemic to the...
- also common at lower levels on the mountain. A po****r site is Kīpuka Puʻu Huluhulu, a kīpuka on Mauna Kea's flank that formed when lava flows isolated the...
- islands of habitat are called kīpukas, a Hawaiian word describing older land surrounded by younger lava. Carey Kīpuka is one such area in the southernmost...
- is Hawaiian for hairy hill (puʻu=hill and huluhulu=hairy). The cone is a kīpuka, which is an older volcanic hill covered with vegetation, surrounded by...
- wet forests on all major islands as well as some mesic forests, such as Kipuka Puaulu. Cheirodendron ****ianum (Decaisne) Frodin (Marquesas Islands)...
- grallator to better evade predation. These spiders have been seen in kipukas, areas that have been surrounded by lava flows. However, they are not found...
- endemic to the island of Hawaiʻi. It has been collected only at Puuwaawaa and Kipuka Puaulu and has not been seen since the 1940s. Keir, M. (2020). "Ochrosia...
- Sveifluháls. The Ögmundarhraun lava field south of Krýsuvík includes some kīpukas, vegetation islands in the lava field, which can be reached by hiking trails...