The species was discovered in May 1993, by Dennis Desjardins, in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Puʻu Makaʻala, on the eastern flank of Mauna Loa, and collected later at the same location.
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Much of Kīlauea's southern ecosystem lies within the Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, where a’e ferns, ʻōhiʻa trees (Metrosideros polymorpha), and hapu’u of the genus Cibotium are common.