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Cymbopogon citratus

Lemon Grass

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Yantza Farm, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Yantza Farm, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (iNaturalist)

42

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1916

First collected

2021

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Cymbopogon citratus, most mentions first.

  1. 2018

    New plant records from Midway Atoll, Kaho‘olawe Island, and Maui

    Starr, F. & Starr, K. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  2. 2017

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2017: Volume

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1916 by Forbes, C.N. (Kauaʻi).

From the collection

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