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Pittosporum kauaiense

Kauai cheesewood

IUCN: endangered

67

Bishop specimens

2

Type specimens

1895

First collected

2022

Last collected

2025

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1890s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1895 by Heller, A.A. (Kauaʻi).

From the collection

Pittosporum kauaiense, 63348Pittosporum kauaiense, 63353Pittosporum kauaiense, 422088Pittosporum kauaiense, 764472Pittosporum kauaiense, 599086Pittosporum kauaiense, 63359Pittosporum kauaiense, 63351Pittosporum kauaiense, 749836Pittosporum kauaiense, 63349Pittosporum kauaiense, 500996Pittosporum kauaiense, 63355Pittosporum kauaiense, 63372

Alive today

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