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Pritchardia hillebrandii

Hillebrand's Loulu

Endemic to HawaiʻiIUCN: critically endangeredcritically imperiled

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

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1910

First collected

1999

Last collected

2022

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Pritchardia hillebrandii, 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

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1910 by Rock, J.F.C. (Oʻahu). The Museum last collected it in 1999; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as July 29, 2022.

From the collection

Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115938Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115962Pritchardia hillebrandii, 686930Pritchardia hillebrandii, 633813Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115965Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115968Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115943Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115948Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115963Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115953Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115973Pritchardia hillebrandii, 115946

Alive today

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