Nothocestrum latifolium

Nothocestrum latifolium
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Nothocestrum
Species: N. latifolium
Binomial name
Nothocestrum latifolium
A.Gray
Synonyms

Nothocestrum subcordatum H.Mann[2]

Nothocestrum latifolium, commonly known as Broadleaf ʻaiea, is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, that is endemic to Hawaiʻi. It can be found in dry and mesic forests at elevations of 460–1,530 m (1,510–5,020 ft) on the islands of Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Oʻahu, and Kauaʻi.[3] Broadleaf ʻaiea is threatened by habitat loss. The CDP of ʻAiea on Oʻahu was named after this species.[4]

Uses

Native Hawaiians used the soft, greenish wood of ʻaiea to make pale (gunwales) for waʻa (outrigger canoes) and ʻaho (thatching sticks).[5]

References

  1. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Nothocestrum latifolium. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 August 2007.
  2. ^ "Nothocestrum latifolium". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=30629. Retrieved 24 June 2010. 
  3. ^ "ʻaiea, halena". Hawaiian Ethnobotany Database. Bernice P. Bishop Museum. http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/ethnobotanydb/resultsdetailed.asp?search=aiea. Retrieved 2009-03-22. 
  4. ^ Medeiros, AC (Spring 2003). "The Pū ʻOlē ʻOlē" (PDF). Native Plants (Native Plants Network): 51. http://www.nativeplantnetwork.org/Content/Articles/4-1NPJ48-51.pdf. 
  5. ^ Medeiros, A. C.; C.F. Davenport; C.G. Chimera (1998) (PDF). Auwahi: Ethnobotany of a Hawaiian Dryland Forest. Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. http://www.hear.org/naturalareas/auwahi/ethnobotany_of_auwahi.pdf. 

External links

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