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Oplismenus hirtellus

Australian Basket-grass

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

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

264

Bishop specimens

1

Type specimens

1851

First collected

2025

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Oplismenus hirtellus, most mentions first.

  1. 2024

    A natural history survey of North Halawa Valley, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Cultural and Environmental Sciences 5, 84 pp

    Polhemus, D.A., Howarth, F.G.& Miller, S.E. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  2. 2023

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2023: Volume

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

  3. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  4. 2025

  5. 2021

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of HalonaValley, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Kickham, Naval Magazine, Lualualei Annex, August–November 2020

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  6. 2013

    New plant records for the Hawaiian Islands 2011–2012

    Lau, A. & Frolich, D. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  7. 2012

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2012: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  8. 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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1850s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1851 by Rémy, J. (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

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Alive today

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