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Wikstroemia skottsbergiana

Scottsberg's False Ohelo

Endemic to HawaiʻiIUCN: critically endangeredpossibly extinct

Photo: (c) Kenneth R. Wood (NTBG), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Kenneth R. Wood (NTBG) (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1948

First collected

2000

Last collected

2023

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Wikstroemia skottsbergiana, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

    Imada, C.T., Faccenda, K., Thomas, M.K., Gallaher, T., Oppenhemier, H., Kennedy, B. & Kalei, A. (eds.) Hawaiian native & naturalized vascular plants checklist (2025 update). 780 pp. [published online 6 November 2025]

    · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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  2. 1999

    Hawaiian vascular plants at risk: 1999

    Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, M.M. Bruegmann & J.Q. Lau · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

    Read

  3. 1998

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Supplement

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1948 by Fagerlind, F. Skottsberg, C. (Kauaʻi). The Museum last collected it in 2000; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as September 21, 2023.

Alive today

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

Wikstroemia skottsbergiana, 2023-09-21

2023-09-21

Hawaii, US

(c) Kenneth R. Wood (NTBG), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)