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Hedychium gardnerianum

Himalayan ginger

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

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

25

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1930

First collected

2024

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Hedychium gardnerianum, most mentions first.

  1. 2012

  2. 2011

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2011: Plants

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  3. 2016

    New Hawaiian Plant Records for 2015

    Oppenheimer, H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  4. 2015

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2015: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  5. 2025

  6. 2024

    New Hawaiian bryophyte records from Herbarium Pacificum for 2023: 106 new island records for Hawaiian liverworts and hornworts

    Judziewicz, E., Freire, A.V. & Thomas, M.K. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 2024

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2024: Volume

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

  8. 2021

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2021: Volume

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1930 by Judd Jr., A.F. (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Hedychium gardnerianum, 747937Hedychium gardnerianum, 799135Hedychium gardnerianum, 656058Hedychium gardnerianum, 409885Hedychium gardnerianum, 643001Hedychium gardnerianum, 596235Hedychium gardnerianum, 642653Hedychium gardnerianum, 717446Hedychium gardnerianum, 717445Hedychium gardnerianum, 667236Hedychium gardnerianum, 147242Hedychium gardnerianum, 147209

Alive today

2,047 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.