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Argyroxiphium caliginis

eke silversword

IUCN: vulnerable

22

Bishop specimens

5

Type specimens

1912

First collected

1984

Last collected

2005

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1910s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1912 by Cox Jr.? (Maui). The Museum last collected it in 1984; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as August 26, 2005.

From the collection

Argyroxiphium caliginis, 73271Argyroxiphium caliginis, 500918Argyroxiphium caliginis, 73274Argyroxiphium caliginis, 432665Argyroxiphium caliginis, 641877Argyroxiphium caliginis, 641876Argyroxiphium caliginis, 477055Argyroxiphium caliginis, 73269Argyroxiphium caliginis, 73273Argyroxiphium caliginis, 73262Argyroxiphium caliginis, 73266Argyroxiphium caliginis, 500919

Alive today

1 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.