Trichospermum peekelii explained

Trichospermum peekelii is a plant species in the family Malvaceae. It is found in the Bismarck Islands and Solomon Islands archipelagoes.^[1]

Names

T. peekelii is reconstructed as *maRako in the Proto-Oceanic language, the reconstructed ancestor of the Oceanic languages.^[2]

Notes and References

1. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:835687-1 Plants of the World Online
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.