Sideroxylon polynesicum

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Sideroxylon polynesicum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Genus: Sideroxylon
Species:
S. polynesicum
Binomial name
Sideroxylon polynesicum
(Hillebr.) Smedmark & Anderb.
Synonyms
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The fruit is inedible and very sticky

Sideroxylon polynesicum, the keahi or island nesoluma, is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is found in the Cook (New Zealand), Tubuai (French Polynesia), and Hawaiian Islands (United States). [1] It is threatened by habitat loss. [1]

Taxonomy

This species was first described as Chrysophyllum polynesicum by William Hillebrand in 1888, two years after his demise. [3] Then Henri Ernest Baillon transferred it to the genus Nesoluma , all of whose constituent species were later incorporated into the genus Sideroxylon as a result of phylogenetic analyses. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Nesoluma polynesicum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1998: e.T32010A9673343. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32010A9673343.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Govaerts, R. et al. (2021). World Checklist of Sapotaceae. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; https://wcsp.science.kew.org/namedetail.do?name_id=348468 Retrieved 26 October 2021
  3. ↑ Hillebrand, W. (†) (1888). Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: a description of their phanerogams and vascular cryptogams. London: Williams & Norgate; New York: B. Westermann & Co.; Heidelberg: Carl Winter. p. 277.
  4. ↑ Smedmark, J.E.E.; Anderberg, A.A. [in Swedish] (2007). "Boreotropical migration explains hybridization between geographically distant lineages in the pantropical clade Sideroxyleae (Sapotaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 94 (9): 1502. doi: 10.3732/ajb.94.9.1491 .
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