Heliconia indica is a species of plant in the family Heliconiaceae. It is found in Maluku and the southwest Pacific.
Names Heliconia indica is reconstructed as *rako in the Proto-Eastern Oceanic language, the reconstructed ancestor of the Eastern Oceanic languages.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.
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