Fonuamamala

Fonuamamala

Fakafaʻafaʻahinga fakasaienisi

Puleʻanga: ʻakau Vahe: ʻakau matala Haʻa: lautengaʻiua Holongā: malpighiales Kāinga: EUPHORBIACEAE Matakali: hippomaneae Kāinga ofi: Homalanthus Faʻahinga: nutans

Hingoa kakato lōua

Homalanthus nutans (G.Forst.) Guill.

Ko e fonuamamala ko e fuʻu ʻakau lahi ia. ʻOku lahi ʻene tupu ʻi ʻEua. ʻOku ui foki ko e H. pedicellatus. ʻOku tohi foki ko e Omalanthus. Naʻe tui ʻoku tatau ʻa e ngaahi fuʻu ʻakaú ni ʻi Polinisia hihifo mo e hahake, kā ʻoku tui het taimí ni, ʻoku na kehe. Ko e faʻahinga mei hahake (ʻotu motu Kuki) ko e H. moerenhoutianus ia.

Omalanthus nutans raceme

Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe

• fanua mamala (lea fakahaʻamoa)
• lepo (lea fakaʻuvea)
• pata (lea fakafutuna)

Tataku

• http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=6240
• 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

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