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Hibiscus arnottianus

Hawaiian White Hibiscus

IUCN: endangered

147

Bishop specimens

5

Type specimens

1864

First collected

2025

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Hibiscus arnottianus, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2024

    A natural history survey of North Halawa Valley, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Cultural and Environmental Sciences 5, 84 pp

    Polhemus, D.A., Howarth, F.G.& Miller, S.E. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2021

    The first record of the family Thaumastocoridae (Heteroptera) from the Hawaiian Islands

    Polhemus, D.A., Magnacca, K.N. & Matsunaga, J.N. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 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

  5. 1999

    Hawaiian vascular plants at risk: 1999

    Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, M.M. Bruegmann & J.Q. Lau · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 1998

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Supplement

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1860s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1864 by Mann, H.; Brigham, W.T. (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

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