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Ruellia prostrata

Prostrate Wild Petunia

21

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1944

First collected

2023

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Ruellia prostrata, most mentions first.

  1. 2003

    Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu stream estuary study

    Englund, R.A., D.J. Preston & K.T. Arakaki · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2001

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001: -02: Articles

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2025

  4. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1944 by Neal, M.C. (Oʻahu).

From the collection

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