Parartocarpus venenosa explained

Parartocarpus venenosa is a tree species in the family Moraceae.[1]

Names

P. venenosa is reconstructed as *lapuka in the Proto-Western Oceanic language, the reconstructed ancestor of the Western Oceanic languages.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parartocarpus venenosa — Plants of the World Online. www.plantsoftheworldonline.org. en. 2019-09-30.
  2. Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (eds). 2008. The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. Volume 3: Plants. Pacific Linguistics 599. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University.