
Sapindaceae FAMILY Critically Endangered
Alectryon macrococcus
Alectryon macrococcus
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitTree
GrowthSlow
A plant of moderate elevations in the tropics. A slow-growing but relatively long-lived species[1].
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-19. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Alectryon+macrococcus>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [1]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
- [2]Hawaii Biodiversity and Mapping Programme — http://hbmp.hawaii.edu/hbmp/index.html ↩︎A series of fact sheets on some of the more threatened species of plant and animal life on the islands of Hawaii. Over 1,300 soecies, about half of which are plants!
- [3]Dictionary of Economic Plants. — Uphof. J. C. Th. · Weinheim · 1959 · ISBN - ↩︎An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader.