The plants (la`au)

Auwahi: Ethnobotany of a Hawaiian dryland forest

The trees


`a`ali`i (Dodonaea viscosa)

a`e (Zanthoxylum kauaiense, Zanthoxylum hawaiiense)

`ahakea (Bobea sandwicensis)

a`i a`i (Streblus pendulinus)

`aiea (Nothocestrum latifolium)

`ākia (Wikestroemia monticola)

`akoko (Chamaecyse celastroides var. lorifolia)

`āla`a (Planchonella sandwicensis)

alahe`e (Psydrax odorata)

alani (Melicope adscendens, Melicope knudsenii, Melicope mucronulata, Melicope volcanica)

halapepe (Chyrsodracon auwahiensis)

hao (Rauvolfia sandwicensis)

hō`awa (Pittosporum argentifolium, Pittosporum glabrum)

hōlei (Ochrosia haleakalae)

`iliahi-a lo`e (Santalum ellipticum)

`iliahi (Santalum haleakalae (freycinetianum) var. lanaiense

kauila, kauwila (Alphitonia ponderosa)

kāwa (Ilex anomala)

keahi (Nesoluma polynesicum)

koai`a, koai`e (Acacia koaia)

kōlea (Myrsine lanaiensis, Myrsine lessertiana)

kōpiko (Psychotria mauiensis)

lama (Diospyros sandwicensis)

māhoe (Alectryon macrococcus var. auwahiensis)

māmaki (Pipturus albidus)

māmane (Sophora chyrsophylla)

manena (Melicope hawaiensis)

maua (Xylosma hawaiiense)

mehame (Antidesma pulvinatum)

mēhamehame (Flueggea neowawraea)

naio (Myoporum sandwicense)

neneleau (Rhus sandwicensis)

`ohe (Polyscias sandwicensis)

`ohe mauka (Polyscias oahuensis)

`ohe`ohe (Polyscias kavaiensis)

`ōhi`a lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha)

`ōlapa (Cheirodendron trigynum)

olopua, pua (Nestegis sandwicensis)

pāpala (Charpentiera obovata)

pāpala kēpau (Pisonia brunoniana)

pilo (Coprosma cordicarpa)

po`olā (Claoxylon sandwicense)

pukiawe (Leptecophylla tameiameiae)

uhiuhi (Caesalpinia kavaiensis)

`ūlei, u'ulei (Osteomeles anthyllidifolia)

wiliwili (Erythrina sandwicensis)


Other natives

Carex wahuensis

koʻokoʻolau (Bidens micrantha var. Kalealaha)

hue hue (Cocculus trilobus)

hoi-kuahiwe (Smilax melastomifolia)

konakona (Panicum tenuifolium)

maile lau li`i (Alyxia oliviformis var. myrtillifolia)

mariscos hillebrandii

pua kala (Argemone glauca)

vigna (Vigna-o-wahuensis)





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