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Melicope orbicularis

Honokahua melicope

Endemic to HawaiʻiIUCN: endangeredvulnerable

Photo: (c) Forest and Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY) (iNaturalist)

49

Bishop specimens

3

Type specimens

1870

First collected

2025

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1870s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1870 by Hillebrand, W.B. (Maui).

From the collection

Melicope orbicularis, 650922Melicope orbicularis, 738714Melicope orbicularis, 689282Melicope orbicularis, 689403Melicope orbicularis, 689401Melicope orbicularis, 762429Melicope orbicularis, 799427Melicope orbicularis, 646555Melicope orbicularis, 801236Melicope orbicularis, 689283Melicope orbicularis, 689411Melicope orbicularis, 689287