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Phlebodium aureum

Blue-star Fern

Introduced to HawaiʻiIUCN: least concern

Photo: (c) Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1878

First collected

2022

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Phlebodium aureum, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2014

    New plant records for 2012

    Oppenheimer, H. & Bustamente, K.M. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2013: Volume

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

  5. 2007

  6. 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 · 1 page

  7. 2001

    Native and exotic organism study

    Englund, R.A., D.J. Preston, N.L. Evenhuis, R.H. Cowie, C. Imada, C. Puttock, & K. Arakaki · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 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

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

Two centuries of collecting

1870s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1878 by Reyoolds, M.C. (St. Augustine.).

From the collection

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Alive today

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