Myrica

Bog-myrtles

Photo: (c) Mike, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mike (iNaturalist)

Bishop specimens

Type specimens

1971

First collected

1993

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive

In the Library

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

2019
Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)
Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages
Read
2025
Imada, C.T., Faccenda, K., Thomas, M.K., Gallaher, T., Oppenhemier, H., Kennedy, B. & Kalei, A. (eds.) Hawaiian native & naturalized vascular plants checklist (2025 update). 780 pp. [published online 6 November 2025]
· Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages
Read
2013
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: Index
Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages
Read
2002
Index to the Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for the years 1994 through 2000
Evenhuis, N.L. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages
Read
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 · 3 pages
Read
2000
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2000: Index
Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages
Read
1999
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Part 2: Notes
Evenhuis, N.L. & L.G. Eldredge, eds · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages
Read
1998
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Notes
Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages
Read

Search the Library for “Myrica” →

Two centuries of collecting

1970s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1971 by van Beusekom, C.F.; Geesink, R.; Phengkhlai, C.; Wongwan, B. (Phukradung, Loei). The Museum last collected it in 1993; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as October 27, 2026.