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Ptisana purpurascens

IUCN: critically endangeredcritically endangered

Photo: (c) Drew Avery, some rights reserved (CC BY) (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1869

First collected

1880

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1860s1880s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1869 by Lucerfaen (Ascension Island).

From the collection

Ptisana purpurascens, 95865