{{Short description|Species of palm}} {{Speciesbox |image = |genus = Balaka |species = tahitensis |authority = Becc. |synonyms = ''Balaka brachychlamys'' (Burret)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Balaka minuta'' (Burret)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Balaka polyclada'' (Burret)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Balaka rechingeriana'' (Burret)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Balaka reineckei'' (Warb.) (Burret)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Balaka tuasivica'' (Christoph.)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Drymophloeus minutus'' (Rech.)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Drymophloeus reineckei'' (Warb.)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Ptychosperma tahitensis'' (H.Wendl.)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Saguaster tahitensis'' (H.Wendl.) (Kuntze)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Vitiphoenix minuta'' (Rech.) (Burret)<ref name="emonocot" /><br /> ''Vitiphoenix polyclada'' (Burret)<ref name="emonocot" /> }}
'''''Balaka tahitensis''''' is a palm, a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is endemic to Samoa.<ref name="emonocot">{{cite web|url=http://zoo-bclark05.zoo.ox.ac.uk/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:19428 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130720124249/http://zoo-bclark05.zoo.ox.ac.uk/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:19428 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 20, 2013 |title=Balaka tahitensis |publisher=eMonocot |access-date=July 20, 2013 }}</ref>
==Distribution== ''Balaka tahitensis'' is found on Upolu and Savai'i, in understory forest to about 800m elevation <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hodel|first=Donald R|date=2010|title=A Synopsis of the Genus Balaka|url=http://www.palms.org/palmsjournal/2010/v54n4p161-188.pdf|journal=Palms|volume=54|issue=4|pages=161–188}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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tahitensis Category:Endemic flora of Samoa
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