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Carex macloviana

Falkland Island sedge

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Peter Zika, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Peter Zika (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1889

First collected

1918

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Carex macloviana, most mentions first.

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Two centuries of collecting

1880s1910s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1889 by Jones, M.E. (South-West U.S.A. Utah; Salt Lake Co., Alta). The Museum last collected it in 1918; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as October 3, 2026.

Alive today

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