{{Short description|5th largest known living coast redwood when counting only the main stem}} {{Infobox tree |name = Lost Monarch |image = Lost Monarch 560.jpg |image_caption = Lost Monarch |species = Coast redwood |binomial = ''Sequoia sempervirens'' |height = {{Convert|97.84|m|ft|abbr=on}} |diameter = {{Convert|7.92|m|ft|abbr=on}} |volume = {{Convert|989|m3|ft3|abbr=on}} |seeded = }}
'''Lost Monarch''' is a coast redwood (''Sequoia sempervirens'') tree in Northern California that is {{convert|26|ft}} in diameter at breast height (with multiple stems included),<ref>Van Pelt, Robert (2001) ''Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast'', University of Washington Press, Seattle. {{ISBN|0-295-98140-7}}</ref> and {{convert|320|ft}} in height. It is the world's fifth largest coast redwood in terms of wood volume (the Del Norte Titan was listed as the largest single-stem coast redwood tree, in part because the basal measurements of the Lost Monarch contain multiple stems).<ref name="Flint2002">{{cite book|author=Wendell D. Flint|title=To Find the Biggest Tree|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZhrrPQAACAAJ|accessdate=2 July 2013|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Sequoia Natural History Association|isbn=978-1-878441-09-6}}</ref><ref name = "Earle">Earle, Christopher J., [http://www.conifers.org/cu/Sequoia.php Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endlicher 1847], Gymnosperm Database, 2013, accessed July 2, 2013</ref>
==Discovery and location== Lost Monarch was discovered on May 11, 1998, by botanist Stephen C. Sillett, and naturalist Michael Taylor, and is located among other giant redwoods called "The Grove of Titans" in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park,<ref name="Preston2007">{{cite book|author=Richard Preston|title=The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring|url=https://archive.org/details/wildtreesstory00pres|url-access=registration|accessdate=2 July 2013|date=10 April 2007|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-58836-603-0}}</ref> although its exact location has not been revealed to the public out of concern that excessive human foot traffic may upset the ecosystem or lead to vandalism.<ref name = "Vaden1">Vaden, Mario D., [http://www.mdvaden.com/redwood_protection.shtml Some redwoods are secret], 2013, accessed July 2, 2013</ref> The tree is estimated to contain {{convert|34,914|ft3|m3}} of wood volume,<ref name="Flint2002" /> and is surrounded by other coastal redwoods known as some of the largest of the species. Of the surrounding redwood trees, some have names from the discoverers, such as El Viejo del Norte, Screaming Titans, Eärendil and Elwing, Stalagmight, and others.<ref name = "Vaden1" />
==Epiphytes== Lost Monarch supports and provides a habitat for epiphytes including ''Polypodium scouleri''. One report from 2003 estimated that Lost Monarch held about {{convert|1000|lb|kg}} of ''P. scouleri'' fern mat material.<ref>Williams, Cameron B. and Stephen C. Sillett, [http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1639/0007-2745%282007%29110%5B420%3AECORSS%5D2.0.CO%3B2?journalCode=bryo Epiphyte communities on redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in northwestern California], The Bryologist, Volume 110, Number 3, pages 420-452. 2007, accessed July 2, 2012</ref>
==See also== * List of individual trees
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/234/ Orion Article: Day of Discovery - Excerpt from ''The Wild Trees'' by Richard Preston]
Category:Individual coast redwood trees Category:Redwood National and State Parks