Phormium tenax
Lowland flax
18
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1909
First collected
1986
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Phormium tenax, most mentions first.
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 · 1 page
2019
Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
2000
Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘iStaples, G.W., D. Herbst & C.T. Imada · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1900s1980s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1909 by Leland, B.; Chase, E.W.B.; Tilden, J.E. (New Zealand, Auckland).
From the collection
