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Delissea waianaeensis

IUCN: critically endangered

39

Bishop specimens

4

Type specimens

1864

First collected

1990

Last collected

2025

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1860s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1864 by Mann, H.; Brigham, W.T. (Oʻahu). The Museum last collected it in 1990; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as June 2, 2025.

Alive today

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