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Laportea

wood nettles

Photo: (c) Jason Hollinger, some rights reserved (CC BY) (iNaturalist)

13

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1955

First collected

1989

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Laportea, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2013

    New plant records for the Hawaiian Islands 2011–2012

    Lau, A. & Frolich, D. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  4. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2013: Volume

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

  5. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: Index

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

  6. 2012

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2012: Volume

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1950s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1955 by Gressitt, J.L. (New Britain). The Museum last collected it in 1989; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as September 2, 2026.

From the collection

Laportea, 624234Laportea, 185989Laportea, 185990Laportea, 82948Laportea, 805540Laportea, 13193Laportea, 26666Laportea, 37351Laportea, 624273Laportea, 27713Laportea, 624235Laportea, 27711

Alive today

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