Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9320 Icacinaceae 
Polyporandra scandens Becc. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, lowland forest near the 9-11 mile 
settlement, foothill forest, <300 m elev. 
woody climber with dilute watery sap; wood light yellow, twigs terete, 
castaneous and puberulent at the apices, older branchlets pale brown, 
lenticels elongate, slightly raised; leaves coriaceous, opposite, 
exstipulate, glabrous, adaxial side dark dull green x abaxially yellow 
green, lamina subelliptic, avg. blade 18x7 cm, apex cuspidate, margin 
entire, base acute; petiole brown, grooved, glabrous; venation 
pinnatinerved, laterals 5-7 pairs, oblique, reticulate, plexus embossed on 
both surfaces; flowers not seen; infructescence axillary, weakly ramiform, 
short (axial length c. 3 cm), seemingly ebracteate, all axes puberulent, 
calyx persistent, minute and scalelike, the lobes roughly triangular in 
form, shortly pubescent; drupes ovoid, c. 18 x 15 mm (dry), slightly 
compressed, epicarp light green turning orange-yellow, strigulose, 
pericarp thin and dry; seed 1 , endocarp costate/reticulate, 
fruits bottled. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9320 
date: Jan., 1994 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9321 Polygalaceae 
Securidaca ecristata Kassau 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, lowland forest near the 9-11 mile 
settlement, foothill forest, <300 m elev. 
liane; bark soft, yellow-brown, striate; wood whitish; twigs slender, terete, 
smooth, green and glabrous, glandular at the nodes; leaves alternate, 
distichous, exstipulate, herbaceous, adaxial surface dark green and 
glabrous, light green and puberulent beneath; venation unicostate, 
penninerved, laterals 8-12 pairs, reticulum somewhat obscure; 
inflorescence axillary and terminal, racemose or paniculate, axial length 
several cm; fruit a samara with a papery plumose wing, c. 5.5 x 1.5 cm, 
second contracted wing present at base; seed globose. 
bottled coll at A. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9321 
date: Jan., 1994 
det.: WT 
