Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9244 Pandanaceae 
Pandanus sp. 
Southern Highlands Province; Kutubu district, swamp forest adjacent to 
Waro and Ubogo villages, NE towards the low ridge, elev. 425 m in 
Metroxylon-dominant swamp, canopy somewhat open. 
10 m tree along stream; leaves arranged in spirally inserted ranks; 
lamina firm, adaxial surface glossy dark green x abaxially glaucous! 
blade liguiate, typical 220 cm x 11 cm, apex tapering to a point, margin 
acroscopically and severely spinose, base sessile, clasping, yellow; 
schizocarp obovoid, c. 32 cm x 28 cm, obscured by bracts, the bracts 
sp<atl laceous, barbed on the margins, outer surface blue-green, inner 
surface dull orange, carpels small, collectively tessellate, stigmatic 
surface raised, umbonate. 
tokples name ‘kosafutura’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9244 
date: Sept. 14, 1993 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9272 Asclepiadaceae 
Hoya sp. 
Morobe province, Atzera Range, disturbed lowland forest near the 8 mile 
settlement; elev. 200-400 m, lat. 6 deg. 41’ S x long. 146 deg. 57’ E. 
w. Kibara 9271; herbaceous climber, lactiferous, rooting epipetrically then 
ascending on trees to the high canopy; stems twining, terete, waxy 
smooth, translucent green and black punctulate, glabrous; leaves 
opposite, exstipulate, divergent, stiffly succulent, entirely glabrous, adaxial 
surface lustrous yellow-green x abaxially pale whitish green, black 
punctulate both sides; lamina elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate 
often recurved, margin entire and decurved, base rounded; venation 
unicostate, apparently 5-6 penninerved but the secondary pattern obscure 
in the fresh leaf, costa impressed above, rounded and raised below; 
petioles green, c. 2.5 cm, strictly terete, stemlike in appearance, yellow- 
green and black punctulate; fruits seen only as a single marescent follicle, 
18.5 cm long, dehisced, epicarp tan-brown and glabrous, follicle 
apparently of linear-conical shape when intact; fruit stalk 2 - 2.5 cm long; 
inflorescence axillary, racemose, axial length usually 5-6 cm (peduncle + 
rachis); peduncle 3 - 3.5 cm, characters as for the petiole and stems; 
rachis 2 - 2.5 cm, shiny green, glabrate, succulent in appearance, 
sparsely bracteate, floral abscission scars few; bracts subovate, green, 
shiny, margins ciliolate, pedicels 3 cm, shiny green and glabrous; flowers: 
actinomorphic, bisexual, 5-merous; calyx somewhat aposepalous, fleshy, 
appressed to the corolla tube, obtuse, shiny green, glabrous; corolla 
entirely yellow, ceraceous, gamopetalous, glabrous except for sparse 
ciliolate hairs on the margins of the limb and dense investiture on the 
inner surface opposite the staminal column, petals acute, valvate in bud, 
divergent at anthesis, fleshy; stamens adnate to the base of the corolla; ' 
anthers with subrecurved and dilated coronal appendages, pollen 
cohering in pollinia-like masses; ovary superior, no disk. 
flowers bottled at A. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9272 
date: Nov. 23, 1993 
