Pesikuku

Pesikuku

fakamolemole, hala faitā

Fakafaʻafaʻahinga fakasaienisi

Puleʻanga: ʻakau Vahe: ʻakau matala Haʻa: lautengaʻiua Holongā: Myrtales Kāinga: MELASTOMATACEAE Kāinga ofi: Melastoma Faʻahinga: denticulatum

Hingoa kakato lōua

Melastoma denticulatum Labill. Hingoa lea fakapilitānia: Pacific melastoma

Ko e pesikuku ko e fuʻu ʻakau siʻi ia. ʻOku ne tātāthai, tupu ʻi loto vao ʻo ʻEua, Kao, ... Ko e ngaahi ʻuhinga tatau: Melastoma taitense, Melastoma vitiense.

Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe

• tavatavamanu (lea fakahaʻamoa)
• ʻuamōtukutuku (lea fakakuki)
• suka (lea fakaʻuvea, lea fakafutuna)

Tataku

• http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=6381
• 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 et al., 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.