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Hibiscus syriacus

Althea

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Kai Yan, Joseph Wong, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) (iNaturalist)

8

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1928

First collected

2004

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1928 by Gheo, H.G. (Flora of Hupeh Province, China. Locality: Wuchang).

From the collection

Hibiscus syriacus, 583251Hibiscus syriacus, 157994Hibiscus syriacus, 158208Hibiscus syriacus, 680401Hibiscus syriacus, 158207Hibiscus syriacus, 508633Hibiscus syriacus, 755697