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Bauhinia purpurea

Butterfly Orchid Tree

Introduced to HawaiʻiIUCN: least concern

29

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1904

First collected

1998

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Bauhinia purpurea, most mentions first.

  1. 2000

    Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘i

    Staples, G.W., D. Herbst & C.T. Imada · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1904 by (Not on sheet) (Java).

From the collection

Bauhinia purpurea, 153134Bauhinia purpurea, 153061Bauhinia purpurea, 153059Bauhinia purpurea, 54734Bauhinia purpurea, 455963Bauhinia purpurea, 153060Bauhinia purpurea, 122348Bauhinia purpurea, 54735Bauhinia purpurea, 455966Bauhinia purpurea, 497657Bauhinia purpurea, 54738Bauhinia purpurea, 56801