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Calathea crotalifera

Rattlesnake Plant

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) colin_gamache, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) (iNaturalist)

21

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1934

First collected

2013

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Calathea crotalifera, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2014

    New plant records for 2012

    Oppenheimer, H. & Bustamente, K.M. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2013: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s2010s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1934 by Grant, M.L. (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Calathea crotalifera, 436337Calathea crotalifera, 553318Calathea crotalifera, 655123Calathea crotalifera, 757899Calathea crotalifera, 146875Calathea crotalifera, 436336Calathea crotalifera, 775356Calathea crotalifera, 763034Calathea crotalifera, 508647Calathea crotalifera, 748347Calathea crotalifera, 409931Calathea crotalifera, 748348

Alive today

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