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Moringa oleifera

Ben oil tree

IUCN: least concern

38

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1916

First collected

2025

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Moringa oleifera, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2023

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2023: Volume

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

  3. 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

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1916 by Elmer, A.D.E. (Luzon).

From the collection

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