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Delissea kauaiensis

leechleaf delissea

Endemic to HawaiʻiIUCN: critically endangeredcritically imperiled

Photo: (c) David Eickhoff, some rights reserved (CC BY) (iNaturalist)

8

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1916

First collected

1996

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1916 by Forbes, C.N. (Kauaʻi). The Museum last collected it in 1996; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as May 18, 2026.

Alive today

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