Family name: Piperaceae
English name: kava
Pohnpeian name: sakau
Kosraean name: suhka
Yapese name: none
Chuukese name: sakaw
Location collected: Kahmar, Nett
Habitat: terrestrial, usually grow in a shady, damp area. Best grown on the mountains in Pohnpei.
Date collected: December 03, 1998
Collected by: Duane Yamaguchi
Vegetative characteristics:
Habit: shrub
Leaf shape and morphology: have a heart-shaped leaf, from 10-13 veined form the base and up to 30 cm long.
Stem type: the stem has green swollen nodes that can reach up to 10ft. long.
Floral characteristics: the male flowers are arranged in a solitary, axillary, greenish white spikes up to 6cm long. The flower arises from a axil opposite a leaf. Female flowers are unknown.
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