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Sporobolus africanus

African Dropseed

121

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1875

First collected

2025

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Sporobolus africanus, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2020

    New Hawaiian plant records from Herbarium Pacificum for 2019

    Imada, C.T. & Kennedy, B.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2019

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2019: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2013

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

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 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 · 1 page

  7. 2000

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2000: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 1998

    Notes on the grasses of Hawai‘i: new records, corrections, and name changes

    Herbst, D.R. & W.R. Clayton · Contribution to 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

1870s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1875 by Sonder, H.W. (Lord Howe Island).

From the collection

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