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Vinca major

Bigleaf Periwinkle

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) (iNaturalist)

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1943

First collected

2013

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Vinca major, most mentions first.

  1. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

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

  2. 2002

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2000. Part 2: notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2025

  4. 2015

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2015: 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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s2010s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1943 by Fagerlund, G.O.; Mitchell, A.L. (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

Vinca major, 24106Vinca major, 764642Vinca major, 24107Vinca major, 661861