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Rhynchospora

Beak-rush

Photo: (c) Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) (iNaturalist)

23

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1930

First collected

2002

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Rhynchospora, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

    Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of the Kauaʻi summits, Hawaiʻi, with two new state records and five new island records

    Judziewicz, E.J., Faccenda, K. & Frieire, A.V. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 13 pages

  2. 2025

  3. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  4. 2007

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006. Part 2: notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. and Eldredge, L.G. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  5. 2006

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  6. 1997

    New and noteworthy Cyperaceae from the Hawaiian Islands

    Strong, M.T. & W.L. Wagner · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  7. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  8. 2002

    Index to the Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for the years 1994 through 2000

    Evenhuis, N.L. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1930 by Grant, M.L. (Tahiti). The Museum last collected it in 2002; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as September 27, 2026.

From the collection

Rhynchospora, 777956Rhynchospora, 803500Rhynchospora, 732730Rhynchospora, 83150Rhynchospora, 42088Rhynchospora, 82480Rhynchospora, 111448Rhynchospora, 422527Rhynchospora, 596422Rhynchospora, 653548Rhynchospora, 653546Rhynchospora, 793337

Alive today

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