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Canna indica

African arrowroot

143

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1841

First collected

2021

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Canna indica, most mentions first.

  1. 2001

    Native and exotic organism study

    Englund, R.A., D.J. Preston, N.L. Evenhuis, R.H. Cowie, C. Imada, C. Puttock, & K. Arakaki · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2025

  3. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

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

  4. 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

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

Two centuries of collecting

1840s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1841 by Museum Botanicum Hauniense (Tropidie de la Concepcion).

From the collection

Canna indica, 525820Canna indica, 116326Canna indica, 506678Canna indica, 28072Canna indica, 782895Canna indica, 34077Canna indica, 116325Canna indica, 474969Canna indica, 116323Canna indica, 109598Canna indica, 551874Canna indica, 109595