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Cyperus esculentus

Chufa (edible Variety)

IUCN: least concern

10

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1930

First collected

2024

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Cyperus esculentus, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 1997

    New and noteworthy Cyperaceae from the Hawaiian Islands

    Strong, M.T. & W.L. Wagner · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

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

  4. 2004

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2004: -05: Notes

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1930 by Svenson, H.K. (the Galapogos Islands: Tortoise Country, ca 8 mi W of Academy Bay, Indefatigable Is.).

From the collection

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