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Sporobolus pyramidatus

Madagascar Dropseed

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Clifton Albrecht, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Clifton Albrecht (iNaturalist)

45

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1908

First collected

2024

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

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

  1. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  2. 2020

    New Hawaiian plant records from Herbarium Pacificum for 2019

    Imada, C.T. & Kennedy, B.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  3. 2019

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2019: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  4. 2008

    Inventory of seabirds, plants, and arthropods on twenty offshore islets in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Eijzenga, H. & Preston, D.J. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  5. 2025

  6. 2023

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2023: Volume

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

  7. 2014

    Biological survey on a 10-acre parcel and adjacent areas, proposed land acquisition, Kahuluui, Maui, Hawaii

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

  8. 2022

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2022: Volume

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1908 by Hitchcock, A.S. (Mexico: Sonora - near bay Guayamas).

From the collection

Sporobolus pyramidatus, 783395Sporobolus pyramidatus, 637354Sporobolus pyramidatus, 769355Sporobolus pyramidatus, 421484Sporobolus pyramidatus, 731183Sporobolus pyramidatus, 778859Sporobolus pyramidatus, 739127Sporobolus pyramidatus, 783387Sporobolus pyramidatus, 779622Sporobolus pyramidatus, 432657Sporobolus pyramidatus, 423351Sporobolus pyramidatus, 783427

Alive today

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