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Xanthosoma sagittifolium

Arrowleaf Elephant's Ear

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Roberto R. Calderón, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Roberto R. Calderón (iNaturalist)

74

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1876

First collected

2005

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1870s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1876 by Harold St. John (Ninatoputapu).

From the collection

Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 17999Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 649965Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 639109Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 418267Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 17421Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 102327Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 582880Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 101917Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 102326Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 115697Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 101922Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 649966