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Oreobolus furcatus

Hawai'I Island Sedge

Endemic to Hawaiʻiimperiled

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103

Bishop specimens

3

Type specimens

1864

First collected

2022

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Oreobolus furcatus, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

    Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of the Kauaʻi summits, Hawaiʻi, with two new state records and five new island records

    Judziewicz, E.J., Faccenda, K. & Frieire, A.V. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2025

  3. 2024

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2024: Volume

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

  4. 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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1860s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1864 by Mann, H.; Brigham, W.T. (Maui).

From the collection

Oreobolus furcatus, 117393Oreobolus furcatus, 502085Oreobolus furcatus, 582480Oreobolus furcatus, 769356Oreobolus furcatus, 529450Oreobolus furcatus, 487380Oreobolus furcatus, 445932Oreobolus furcatus, 117397Oreobolus furcatus, 117395Oreobolus furcatus, 436206Oreobolus furcatus, 413846Oreobolus furcatus, 117409

Alive today

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