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Pritchardia forbesiana

Forbes' Loulu

Endemic to HawaiʻiIUCN: endangeredcritically imperiled

Photo: (c) Forest and Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY) (iNaturalist)

29

Bishop specimens

3

Type specimens

1917

First collected

2006

Last collected

2024

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Pritchardia forbesiana, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 1999

    Hawaiian vascular plants at risk: 1999

    Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, M.M. Bruegmann & J.Q. Lau · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 1998

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Supplement

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1917 by Forbes, C.N. (Maui).

From the collection

Pritchardia forbesiana, 726075Pritchardia forbesiana, 726073Pritchardia forbesiana, 726112Pritchardia forbesiana, 726074Pritchardia forbesiana, 726072Pritchardia forbesiana, 726081Pritchardia forbesiana, 726082Pritchardia forbesiana, 726077Pritchardia forbesiana, 726080Pritchardia forbesiana, 726076Pritchardia forbesiana, 726079Pritchardia forbesiana, 726078

Alive today

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