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Mucuna sloanei

Horse-eye Bean

Native to Hawaiʻi

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Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1921

First collected

2025

Last collected

2025

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Mucuna sloanei, most mentions first.

  1. 1995

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994: notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & S.E. Miller, editors · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  2. 1994

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  3. 2025

  4. 1999

    Hawaiian vascular plants at risk: 1999

    Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, M.M. Bruegmann & J.Q. Lau · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 1998

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Supplement

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1921 by Brown, F.B.H. (Nuku Hiva).

From the collection

Mucuna sloanei, 155126Mucuna sloanei, 155132Mucuna sloanei, 155127Mucuna sloanei, 598359Mucuna sloanei, 55756Mucuna sloanei, 55758Mucuna sloanei, 650946Mucuna sloanei, 55751Mucuna sloanei, 640863Mucuna sloanei, 475949Mucuna sloanei, 731245Mucuna sloanei, 704615

Alive today

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