Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9206 Araliaceae 
Schefflera elliptica (Seem.) Harms 
Southern Highlands Province; Kutubu district, Metroxylon-dominant 
swamp forest adjacent to Waro and Ubogo villages, elev. 425 m, canopy 
somewhat open, lat. 6 deg. 32’ S x long. 143 deg. 12’ E. 
w. 9201; woody climber; twigs terete, pale brown, generally smooth; 
leaves alternate, spreading, palmately cmpd., mostly 5-6 leaflets, the 
leaflets conform, lanceolate-ovate, distal blade longest (c. 12 x 5 cm), 
lamina coriaceous, glabrous, adaxially dark shining green x abaxialiy 
yellow green; lateral venation in 6-10 oblique and irregular pairs, 
ramifying and very areolate between, only the costa apparent in fresh 
leaves; petiolules slender, geniculated at the blade, to c. 5 cm on the 
apical leaflet and progressively shorter on the peripheral ones; petiole 
terete, _1 1 cm length, shiny yellow-green, swollen at both ends, base 
clasping; fruits not seen; inflorescence terminal, a panicle of cmpd. 
umbels shorter than the leaves, all axes shining yellow-green and 
glabrous; flowers unisexual (sp. apparently dioecious); perianth glabrous, 
the calyx truncate and very weakly toothed between the petals; corolla 
choripetalous, fleshy, mostly 4-5 merous, yellow-green, petals valvate, 
broad at the base with apices acute and recurved; ovary inferior, the top 
appearing as a fleshy disk, surface densely pubescent; 4-6 stigmas, 
each umbonate and sessile, 
flowers bottled at A. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9206 
date: Sept. 11,1993 
det.: D. Frodin 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9211 Apocynaceae 
Parsonsia curvisepala K. Sch. 
Southern Highlands Province; Kutubu district, limestone ridge S of Ubogo 
village, toward the Hegigio River, mature hill forest at elev. c. 425 m, lat. 6 
deg. 33’ S x long. 143 deg. 12’ E. 
woody climber; stems terete, slender, dk brown, indumentum lanulose 
and light brown; lenticels lax, pustulate; leaves whorled, typically 4- 
verticellate, spreading, exstipulate, chartaceous to papery, adaxial surface 
dark green x abaxialiy dull yellow-green, puberulous on both sides, 
hirtellous on veins; lamina elliptic, typical 7.5 x 3 cm (slightly larger at 
basal nodes), apex acuminate, base acute or cuneate; venation 
unicostate, penninerved, laterals in c. 6-8 pairs, areolate between, main 
veins slightly raised on both surfaces; inflorescence axillary, paniculiform 
or umbelliform, c. congested, pedunculate, all axes yellow-green, terete, 
pubescent; sepals 5, light green, deeply divided, linear-acuminate, 
recurved; corolla urceolate, puberulous, limb of 5 acuminate-lanceolate 
lobes, reflexed at anthesis, fulvous, throat hairy; stamens 5, adnate to the 
tube base; filaments connivent over the ovary and then assurgent as a 
column, puberulous; anthers sagittate, partially exserted; ovary 1, 
glabrous, umbonate, superior; style simple, obscured by androecium; 
gynoecium encircled by a disk of 5 columnar and glandlike scales; 
follicles linear, terete, 20-25 cm long, epicarp puberulous; seeds many, 
coma of long silky hairs, 
flowers bottled at A. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 921 1 
date: Sept. 13, 1993 
det: WT 
