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Gardenia taitensis

Tahitian Gardenia

Introduced to HawaiʻiIUCN: least concern

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

109

Bishop specimens

1

Type specimens

1850

First collected

2024

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1850s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1850 by Ribourt (Tahiti).

From the collection

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