Pittosporum hosmeri
Kona cheesewood
Endemic to HawaiʻiIUCN: vulnerableimperiled
Photo: (c) David Eickhoff, some rights reserved (CC BY) (iNaturalist)
135
Bishop specimens
15
Type specimens
1779
First collected
2012
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Pittosporum hosmeri, 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
Where Bishop collected it
6 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1770s2010s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1779 by Nelson, D. (Hawaiʻi Island).
From the collection
