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Senna didymobotrya

African Wild Cassia

Introduced to HawaiʻiIUCN: least concern

Photo: (c) Steven Severinghaus, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1930

First collected

1986

Last collected

2024

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Senna didymobotrya, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 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

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1930 by Munro, G.C. (Lānaʻi). The Museum last collected it in 1986; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as August 4, 2024.

From the collection

Senna didymobotrya, 510632Senna didymobotrya, 507866Senna didymobotrya, 54993Senna didymobotrya, 500746Senna didymobotrya, 505765Senna didymobotrya, 10583Senna didymobotrya, 54990Senna didymobotrya, 460652Senna didymobotrya, 54986Senna didymobotrya, 54987Senna didymobotrya, 28162Senna didymobotrya, 487164

Alive today

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