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Nelumbo nucifera

Bean of India

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

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

8

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1931

First collected

2009

Last collected

2024

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Nelumbo nucifera, most mentions first.

  1. 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

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1931 by Grant, M.L. (Tahiti).

From the collection

Nelumbo nucifera, 556320Nelumbo nucifera, 623090Nelumbo nucifera, 615506Nelumbo nucifera, 653560Nelumbo nucifera, 746871Nelumbo nucifera, 746870Nelumbo nucifera, 638354

Alive today

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