Sandalwoods - hemiparasitic plants.

Sandalwoods were greatly depleted during the intense sandalwood trade with China in the early 19th Century. The dry forests that hosted them were often burned, and when the supply became more scarce there was a brief and fortunately unsuccessful attempt to use naio as a substitute. Sandalwoods survived in small pockets and scrubby habitats despite the common misconception that they were generally rare or extinct. (though some of the individual species are rare now) Sandalwoods varieties are threatened by alien mammals, and particularly by rats eating the fruits. Sandalwoods are still actively logged in some areas.

Hawai'i hosts s. paniculatum and s. ellipticum.