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Euphorbia skottsbergii

coastal sandmat

Endemic to HawaiʻiIUCN: vulnerableimperiled

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

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Bishop specimens

11

Type specimens

1912

First collected

1991

Last collected

2025

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Euphorbia skottsbergii, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1912 by Forbes, C.N. (Molokaʻi). The Museum last collected it in 1991; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as March 2, 2025.

From the collection

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Alive today

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