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]