Heliconia indica is a species of plant in the family Heliconiaceae. It is found in Maluku and the southwest Pacific.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Heliconiaceae |
| Genus: | Heliconia |
| Species: | H. indica
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Names
editHeliconia indica is reconstructed as *rako in the Proto-Eastern Oceanic language, the reconstructed ancestor of the Eastern Oceanic languages.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Heliconia indica — Plants of the World Online". www.plantsoftheworldonline.org. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ "Heliconia indica - Useful Tropical Plants".
- ^ Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (eds). 2008. The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. Volume 3: Plants Archived 2019-02-04 at the Wayback Machine. Pacific Linguistics 599. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University.
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