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Tephrosia purpurea
Purple Hoarypea
As recorded: Tephrosia purpurea subsp. purpurea
Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Fabales › Fabaceae
- Collected by
- Degener, O.; Degener, I.Isa Degener →Otto Degener →
- Collector number
- 28649
- Date
- July 22, 1963
- Locality
- Kaumalapau, within 100' of Hawaiian house ruin
- Island
- Lānaʻi
- Region
- Hawaii, United States
- Identified by
- Wagner, W.L.; Herbst, D.R.; Sohmer, S.H.Derral R. Herbst →Seymour H. Sohmer →Warren L. Wagner Jr. →
- Record type
- Preserved specimen
Collected the same day
On July 22, 1963, Degener, O.; Degener, I. also collected 5 other specimens.
Tephrosia purpurea observed alive in Hawaiʻi
This specimen was collected in 1963. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 2 research-grade sightings in the wild, most recently on 2023-10-20.
2023-10-20
Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, Pahoa, HI, US
(c) Jason Flor Flores, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2015-05-16
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii County, US-HI, US
(c) afarahi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Observations and photos from iNaturalist, shown only when openly licensed.
Cite this specimen
Tephrosia purpurea. BISH 56181. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 5956635844. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/bish/56181.
Record sources
- GBIF occurrence 5956635844 ↗
- Data license: CC_BY_NC_4_0
- Last harvested October 26, 2026