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Mimosa pudica

Action Plant

Introduced to HawaiʻiIUCN: least concern

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148

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1864

First collected

2007

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Mimosa pudica, most mentions first.

  1. 2002

    Stream and botanical survey of an unnamed tributary flowing into Pu‘u Ka ‘Ele Reservoir and Pila‘a Stream, Pila‘a, Kilauea, Kaua‘i

    Englund, R.A., C. Imada & D.J. Preston · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2025

  3. 2020

    New Hawaiian plant records from Herbarium Pacificum for 2019

    Imada, C.T. & Kennedy, B.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2019

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2019: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 2013

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

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 2007

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006. Part 2: notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. and Eldredge, L.G. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 2006

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1860s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1864 by Mann, H.; Brigham, W.T. (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Mimosa pudica, 607144Mimosa pudica, 581354Mimosa pudica, 10866Mimosa pudica, 770193Mimosa pudica, 155079Mimosa pudica, 155114Mimosa pudica, 155102Mimosa pudica, 155100Mimosa pudica, 654712Mimosa pudica, 607175Mimosa pudica, 55700Mimosa pudica, 453480

Alive today

1,482 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.