Nothocestrum latifolium

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

Nothocestrum subcordatum H.Mann<ref name=="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=30629 |taxon=Nothocestrum latifolium |accessdate=24 June 2010 }}</ref>

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.[2] Broadleaf ʻaiea is threatened by habitat loss. The CDP of ʻAiea on Oʻahu was named after this species.[3]

Uses

Native Hawaiians used the soft, greenish wood of ʻaiea to make pale (gunwales) for waʻa (outrigger canoes) and ʻaho (thatching sticks).[4]

References

  1. ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Nothocestrum latifolium. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 August 2007.
  2. ↑ "ʻaiea, halena". Hawaiian Ethnobotany Database. Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Retrieved 2009-03-22.
  3. ↑ Medeiros, AC (Spring 2003). "The Pū ʻOlē ʻOlē" (PDF). Native Plants (Native Plants Network): 51.
  4. ↑ Medeiros, A. C.; C.F. Davenport; C.G. Chimera (1998). "Auwahi: Ethnobotany of a Hawaiian Dryland Forest" (PDF). Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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