Desmodium incanum DC.

Ko e kihikihi ko e fuʻu ʻakau siʻi ia, ʻoku kihi ia. ʻOku ʻi ai lahi ngaahi faʻahinga kehekehe mo e hingoa ʻeni. Ko e kihikihí ni ʻoku ʻi ai ʻene ngeʻesitenga ʻoku pipiki ʻaupito ki he vala kotoa pē, koeʻuhi ʻa ʻenau ngaahi kiʻi fulufulu.

Ko e kihikihí ni ʻi Tongá ni ʻoku ʻikai ʻi ai hano fulufulu ʻi he kau mo e lou, neongo ʻoku ʻi ai ʻi muli. Ko e faʻahinga kehe ia?

Ko tohi ʻo Yunker ʻoku pehē ko e kihikihi ko e D. triflorum ia. Mahalo pē naʻe hala ia? Kā ʻoku ʻi ai ʻa e meʻa tatau ʻi Fisi: konikoni.

Ngaahi faʻahinga kehekehe

• kihikihi; ko e kihikihi 'moʻoni'
• kihikihi, D. triflorum
• kihikihi, koʻeni pe D. canum (hingoa taʻetotonu) pe Hedysarum incanum; meimei tatau mo e D. triflorum kā ʻoku siʻi lahi ange, ko e ʻakau ʻomi ki Tonga taʻefuoloa, ʻa ia ʻoku teʻeki ʻi ai hono hingoa fakatonga
• kihikihitahi
• kihikihimaka
• kihikihilanumata, Galactia tenuiflora
• kihikihingingie

Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe

• piripiri ʻaratita (lea fakatahisi, D. incanum)
• kaʻimi (lea fakahauaiʻi, D. incanum)
• piripiri, ngātoro (lea fakakuki)
• konikoni, vakacegu (lea fakafisi, D. triflorum)

Tataku

• http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=6050
• http://www.hear.org/pier/species/desmodium_incanum.htm
• http://www.hear.org/pier/species/desmodium_triflorum.htm
• Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
• Tongan dictionary; C.M. Churchward
• Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959