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Balaka streptostachys

Balaka streptostachys is a critically endangered species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is found only in Fiji. It grows to a height of and in diameter. It is distinct from the other Balaka species because of the twists in its rachilla.

The only known population of this palm is in a stand of approximately 50 trees, on the northern foothills of Mt. Sorolevu on Vanua Levu.

It was first described by D. Fuller & John Leslie Dowe in 1999.

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