Balaka seemannii

{{Short description|Species of palm}}

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|image = Balaka seemannii.jpg

|image_alt = illustration of Balaka seemannii

|image_caption = Illustration of Balaka seemannii

|status = LC|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Tikoca, S. |author2=Rivers, M.C. |date=2017 |title=Balaka seemannii |volume=2017 |page=e.T38436A2869106 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T38436A2869106.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}

|genus = Balaka

|species = seemannii

|authority = (H.Wendl.) Becc.Balaka seemannii (from the basionym Ptychosperma seemannii) was published in Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 2: 91. 1885.{{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/100152000 |title=Name - Genus epithet Auth |website=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT) |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |quote=Basionym: Ptychosperma seemannii H.Wendl. |access-date=December 17, 2012}}Ptychosperma seemannii, the basionym of Balaka seemannii, was originally described and published in Bonplandia. Zietschrift für die gesammte Botanik. 10: 192. [July] 1862. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/100249174 |title=Name - Ptychosperma seemannii H.Wendl. |website=Tropicos |publisher=MOBOT |access-date=December 17, 2012}}

|synonyms =

• Actinophloeus kerstenianus (Sander) Burret
• Balaka cuneata Burret
• B. gracilis Burret
• B. kersteniana (Sander) Becc. ex Martelli
• B. perbrevis (H.Wendl.) Becc.
• Drymophloeus kerstenianus Sander ex Burret (nom. inval.)
• D. seemannii (H.Wendl.) Becc. ex Martelli
• Kentia kersteniana Sander
• Ptychosperma kerstenianum (Sander) Burret
• P. perbreve H.Wendl.
• P. seemannii H.Wendl. (basionym)
• Saguaster perbrevis (H.Wendl.) Kuntze
• S. seemannii (H.Wendl.) Kuntze
• Vitiphoenix seemannii Becc. ex Martelli (nom. inval.)

|synonyms_ref = {{ cite web |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-19424 |title=TPL, treatment of Balaka seemannii |website=The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet) |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden |year=2010 |access-date=December 17, 2012}}

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Balaka seemannii is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae that is endemic to Fiji; growing in mixed forests on Vanua Levu and Taveuni islands.