BISH 627531Botany

Sterculia

tropical chestnuts

As recorded: Sterculia L.

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Malvales › Malvaceae

Collected by: Mueller-Dombois, D.
Collector number: 81081719
Date: August 17, 1981
Locality: Northeast coast of island; above Ouegoa along forest road
Island: New Caledonia
Region: New Caledonia
Elevation: 800 m
Identified by: Mueller-Dombois, D.
Record type: Preserved specimen

82 Bishop specimens of Sterculia · collected 1927–2014Species page ›

Collected the same day

On August 17, 1981, Mueller-Dombois, D. also collected 24+ other specimens.

Sterculia observed alive

This specimen was collected in 1981. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 6,125 research-grade sightings in the wild, most recently on 2026-10-29.

2026-10-29

Roadside verge, Frenches Creek Road

(c) Greg Tasney, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

2026-10-29

No.192,Plot, no.3, ICM LIFE SCIENCE INS, beside Fenstech Enterprises, Suraram Village, Suraram, Hyderabad, Telangana 500043, India

(c) Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya, some rights reserved (CC BY)

2026-10-28

520台灣彰化縣田中鎮姜子寮坑

(c) 陳士訓, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2026-10-27

Amamoor Creek Rd, Amamoor Creek, QLD, AU

(c) Joel Bruckner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2026-10-26

MWCX+XM, Edale, Sénégal

(c) Oumou Diallo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2026-10-25

Toucountouna, Bénin

(c) t_venceslas, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Cite this specimen

Sterculia. BISH 627531. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 5956540477. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/bish/627531.

Record sources

GBIF occurrence 5956540477 ↗
Data license: CC_BY_NC_4_0
Last harvested October 26, 2026