Parartocarpus venenosus is a tree species in the family Moraceae. It is a native to Malesia, Papuasia, and Peninsular Thailand.
Names P. venenosus is reconstructed as *lapuka in the Proto-Western Oceanic language, the reconstructed ancestor of the Western 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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