Alectryon macrococcus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sapindales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids II Ordo: Sapindales

Alectryon macrococcus Radlk., Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München 20: 255 (1890)

Note: this name is based on "Mahoe, gen. nov.?" by Hillebrand, Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 86 (1888).
Type: W. Hillebrand s.n. (Lectotype: K [K000701704^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, designated by Linney 1988: 69]; Isolectotype: K [K000701705^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, collected in 1870, determined by Linney on 8 April 1985]; 'Isotypes': BISH {BISH1016502 (586942)^{(JSTOR, JSTOR)}, BISH1016503 (581855)^{(JSTOR, JSTOR)} [with J.M. Lydgate]} [both collected at pali of Kalaupapa, Molokai]).
- Note: St. John & Frederick (1949: 300) designated a lost specimen at B (destroyed in 1943; monochrome photos available in St. John & Frederick 1949 and Linney 1988: 69) which was later rejected by Linney (1988).
Type locality: [United States of America. Hawaii:] Hawaiian Islands, in Molokai on the pali of Kalaupapa and in Oahu on the S. W. slope of Mt. Kaala (left branch of Makaleha).

Heterotypic
- Alectryon mahoe H.St.John & Frederick, Pacific Sci. 3: 296 (–299) (1949); not accepted by Linney (1988: 73) [cited as A. macrococcus var. macrococcus] and Wagner et al. (1999) [cited as A. macrococcus]
  - Type: L. Frederick & K. Sakimura 185 (21 August 1947, in flower and fruit; Holotype: BISH [BISH1016504 (579825)^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}]; Isotypes: BISH {BISH1016505 (579824)^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, BISH1016506 (579823)^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}}, US [US00095319 (2592817 A)^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}]).
  - Type locality: [United states of America.] Hawaiian Islands, Oahu: Puu Kanehoa, South Huliwai Gulch, 2,100 ft. elev.; in open forest with Neraudia sp., Fagara semiarticulata [= Zanthoxylum kauaense A.Gray], and Planchonella sp.
- Alectryon macrococcus var. auwahiensis G.Linney, Pacific Sci. 41: 73 (1987 publ. 1988)
  - Type: E.L. Little, Jr. 31122 (26 August 1976; Holotype: BISH [BISH1016501 (423454)^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}]; cf. US [US00585077 (3280747)^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, without type indication]).
  - Type locality: [United States of America.] Hawaii, [Maui]: Eight miles east of Ulupalakua, dry forest on lava, 3000–3500 ft.

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Pacific Regional: North-Central Pacific Hawaii (Hawaiian Is.). References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

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. BHL Reference page.
St. John, H. & Frederick, L. 1949. A Second Hawaiian Species of Alectryon (Sapindaceae). Hawaiian Plant Studies 17. Pacific Science 3(4) 296–301. hdl: 10125/8938 Reference page.
Linney, G. 1987[1988]. Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Changes in Hawaiian Alectryon (Sapindaceae). Pacific Science 41(1–4): 68–73. hdl: 10125/1021 Reference page.
Wagner, W., Herbst, D. & Sohmer, S. 1999. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Special Publication 91: 1–1918. Reference page.

IUCN: Alectryon macrococcus Radlk. (Critically Endangered) - Assessed by M.M. Bruegmann & V. Caraway on 30 April 2003.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Alectryon macrococcus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 November 18. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2023. Alectryon macrococcus. Published online. Accessed: 18 November 2023.
Tropicos.org 2023. Alectryon macrococcus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 18 November 2023.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2023. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Alectryon macrococcum. Accessed: 2023 November 22.

English: Mahoe
Hawaiʻi: ʻalaʻalahua

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