Pualiki

Pualiki

Fakafaʻafaʻahinga fakasaienisi

Puleʻanga:	ʻakau
Vahe:	ʻakau matala
Haʻa:	lautengaʻiua
Holongā:	malpighiales
Kāinga:	VIOLACEAE
Kāinga ofi:	Melicytus
Faʻahinga:	samoensis

Hingoa kakato lōua

Melicytus samoensis Christophersen
Hingoa lea fakapilitānia: Whitey-wood

Ko e pualiki ko e fuʻu ʻakau lahi ia. ʻOku tupu pē ʻi ʻEua, ʻoku lahi ʻi Nuʻusila. ʻOku kehe ʻaupito mo e pua.

ʻOku ʻikai te ne tatau mo e Melicytus ramiflorus, naʻe tui ki ai ʻi he kuonga kuo hili. He taimí ni ʻoku pehē ʻe he kau saienisi ko M. oblongifolius mei Norfolk Island pea mo e M. fastigiatus mei Fisi pea mo e M. samoensis mei Haʻamoa mo Tonga, ʻoku ʻikai te nau kei kau ki he M. ramiflorus mei Nuʻusila, kā ko e ngaahi faʻahinga kehe moʻoni.

Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe

māhoe (lea fakamauli)

Tataku

Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
Tongan dictionary; C.M. Churchward
Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959
D.R. Drake, Rain forest vegetation of ʻEua Island, New Zealand Journal of Botany 34, 1996

Ko e kupu ʻeni ko e potuʻi ia (stub). ʻIo, ko koe, kātaki tokoni mai ʻi hono ngāue fatu fakalahi.