''Lasjia hildebrandii'', also known as Celebes nut, Sulawesi nut, Sulawesi macadamia or Hildebrand's macadamia, is a species of forest tree in the protea family that is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the island of

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. Its closest relative is ''

Lasjia erecta ''Lasjia erecta'' is a species of forest tree in the protea family that is endemic to the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its closest relative is ''Lasjia hildebrandii'', also a Sulawesi endemic. History The tree was first described in 1995 a ...

'', also a Sulawesi endemic.

History

The tree was first described in 1952 by Dutch botanist Van Steenis as a species of ''

Macadamia ''Macadamia'' is a genus of four species of trees in the flowering plant family Proteaceae. They are indigenous to Australia, native to northeastern New South Wales and central and southeastern Queensland specifically. Two species of the genus ...

'', but was transferred in 2008, in a paper in the ''

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'' by Peter Weston and Austin Mast, to the new genus ''Lasjia''.

Description

The species grows to about 14 m in height by 10 m across. It produces edible nuts.

Distribution and habitat

The species occurs on the large

Wallacea Wallacea is a biogeographical designation for a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep-water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves. Wallacea includes Sulawesi, the largest island in the group, as well as Lo ...

n island of Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) in Indonesia, on well-drained soils in or near lowland

tropical rainforest Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as ''lowland equatori ...

References

hildebrandii Endemic flora of Sulawesi Trees of Sulawesi Taxa named by Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis Plants described in 1952 {{Proteaceae-stub