Boerhavia herbstii
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Endemic to Hawaiʻivulnerable
Photo: (c) Forest and Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY) (iNaturalist)
22
Bishop specimens
1
Type specimens
1910
First collected
1993
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Boerhavia herbstii, most mentions first.
2025
Imada, C.T., Faccenda, K., Thomas, M.K., Gallaher, T., Oppenhemier, H., Kennedy, B. & Kalei, A. (eds.) Hawaiian native & naturalized vascular plants checklist (2025 update). 780 pp. [published online 6 November 2025]· Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
6 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1910s1990s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1910 by Rock, J.F.C. (Lānaʻi).
From the collection
