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Marsdenia

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8

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1934

First collected

1989

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

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

  1. 2000

    Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘i

    Staples, G.W., D. Herbst & C.T. Imada · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1934 by Lau, S.K. (Hainan). The Museum last collected it in 1989; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as July 14, 2026.

From the collection

Marsdenia, 621050Marsdenia, 123415Marsdenia, 83433Marsdenia, 82947Marsdenia, 82230Marsdenia, 603197Marsdenia, 82282

Alive today

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