Diospyros hillebrandii est arbor florens familiae Ebenacearum, in insulis Oahu et Kauai in Insulis Havaianis endemica.[2] Nomen vulgare, ēlama, in lingua Havaiana 'fax, lucerna' significat.[3] Ēlama est parva vel media arbor, quae usque ad 4–10 m alta crescit.[2] In silvis mesicis litoralibus et mesicis mixtis in altitudinibus 150–760 m habitat.[4]
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, et Samuel H. Elbert. 1986. Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian–English, English–Hawaiian. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0703-0.