Balaka is a genus of 11 known species in the palm family, Arecaceae or Palmae.

Seven species are native to the islands of Fiji and four to Samoa.

[2] The genus was first proposed and published in Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 2: 91.

1885,[1] from two species originally in the genus Ptychosperma (P. perbrevis and P. seemannii).

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