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Portulaca molokiniensis Hobdy

'Ihi; Molokini 'Ihi

Portulacaceae · Hawaii

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Portulaca molokiniensis, photograph (c) Eric Knight, some rights reserved (CC BY)Portulaca molokiniensis, photograph (c) Eric Knight, some rights reserved (CC BY)Portulaca molokiniensis, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPortulaca molokiniensis, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPortulaca molokiniensis, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPortulaca molokiniensis, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 14 photographs ›

Summary

Portulaca molokiniensis, known also as 'ihi, is a succulent plant endemic to Hawaii. This plant is federally listed as an endangered species. It has small yellow flowers and when grown from seed may produce a caudex. This plant is easy to propagate.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Portulaca molokiniensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Portulaca

Portulaca is a genus of flowering plants in the family Portulacaceae, and is the type genus of the family. With over 100 species, it is found generally in the tropics and warm temperate regions. Portulacas are also known as the purslanes.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Portulaca", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeHawaii · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker20.686, -156.486 · in the densest population, 6 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 13 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Eric Knight, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Other Portulaca 13 in the reference

Portulaca amilis Portulaca amilis Paraguayan purslane Photo: CC0, author not statedPortulaca cryptopetala Portulaca cryptopetala Portulacaceae Photo: CC BY, Carla Florencia RodríguezPortulaca gilliesii Portulaca gilliesii Portulacaceae Photo: CC BY, Rafael TosiPortulaca grandiflora Portulaca grandiflora Rose-moss Photo: CC BY, Guillermo DebandiPortulaca halimoides Portulaca halimoides Silk-cotton purslane Photo: CC BY, Jo RobertsPortulaca obtusa Portulaca obtusa Argentinian Purslane Photo: CC BY, Lucas CarbonePortulaca oleracea Portulaca oleracea Common purslane Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaPortulaca pilosa Portulaca pilosa Kiss-me-quick Photo: CC BY, Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）Portulaca quadrifida Portulaca quadrifida Chickenweed Photo: CC BY-SA, Rebecca Ryen-StolsPortulaca rubricaulis Portulaca rubricaulis Red-stem purslane Photo: CC BY, Josiah LonderéePortulaca suffrutescens Portulaca suffrutescens Shrubby purslane Photo: CC BY, Bruce HartmanPortulaca umbraticola Portulaca umbraticola Wingpod purslane Photo: CC BY, Mitul and Vijul Singh all 14 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Portulacaceae
Described by
Hobdy
Native to
Hawaii
Wild records
6 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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