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Impatiens balsamina

Balsam

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

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

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1918

First collected

2021

Last collected

2024

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1918 by Nelson, P. (Guam).

From the collection

Impatiens balsamina, 133658Impatiens balsamina, 502356Impatiens balsamina, 403207Impatiens balsamina, 799693Impatiens balsamina, 448994Impatiens balsamina, 433720Impatiens balsamina, 758410Impatiens balsamina, 688417Impatiens balsamina, 452764Impatiens balsamina, 661408Impatiens balsamina, 783004Impatiens balsamina, 572089

Alive today

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