Sideroxylon polynesicum

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]

Sideroxylon polynesicum
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
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
Chrysophyllum polynesicum Hillebr. Isonandra polynesica (Hillebr.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Drake[2] Nesoluma polynesicum (Hillebr.) Baill.

The fruit is inedible and very sticky

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]

References

1. 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.