Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9325 Rhizophoraceae 
Gynotroches axillaris Blume 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, near the 9-1 1 mile settlements; foothill 
forest <300 m elev. 
with 9315; small tree, wood white, branchlets hollow, terete, periderm 
greyish-brown, twigs glabrous, apically somewhat compressed, stipulate, 
the stipules linear-acuminate, evanescent, c. 3 cm long, glabrous; leaves 
opposite, divergent, glabrous, dry-coriaceous, adaxial surface dark 
glossy green x abaxially pale green or yellow green, lamina elliptic- 
oblong, avg. blade 17 x 6.75 cm, apex acuminate, margin entire, base 
cuneate; petiole 1-1.5 cm long, flattened above; venation unicostate, 
penniveined, laterals c. 8-10 pairs, oblique, arcuate, not closing, 
reticulate, plexus manifest, raised, coarsely and irregularly areolate; 
inflorescence densely fascicled, in axils of present or fallen leaves, 
bracteate at base of pedicel, the bracts minute, scalelike, puberulent, 
pedicels about 4 mm long, articulated on lower half; flowers entirely 
glabrous, radial, bisexual, small (c. 7 mm dia.), 4-merous, 
dichlamydeous; calyx deeply cleft, cup shallow, the lobes patent, rather 
fleshy, broadly ovate with apex acute; corolla choripetalous, petals 
obovate-spathulate, divaricate, light yellow, apically incrassate-fimbriate; 
disk annular, fleshy, crenulate at the staminal insertions; stamens 8, 
filaments erect, anthers dorsifixed, thecae 2; ovary superior, globose, 
smooth, orange-red, crowned by a columnar style, stigma dilate, 
lamellate-lobulate, the lobes spreading; fruits not seen. 
flowers bottled 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9325 
date: Jan. 1994 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9326 Piperaceae 
Piper cf. macropiper Pennant 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, inland from the 9-11 mile settlement, 
foothill forest at elev. <300 m. 
with sequence starting Salacia 9315; climber; twigs slender, terete, dark 
grayish-brown, hirtellous or tomentulose at the apices, distinctly swollen at 
nodes; stipules fugacious, linear, small and inconspicuous (c. 2 mm long), 
shaggy; leaves alternate, distichous, subcoriaceous, shortly hairy on 
nerves (mainly on underleaf), adaxial surface dull medium green with 
deeply impressed veins, abaxially glaucous and with raised venation; 
lamina lanceolate, average blade 13 cm x 4.5 cm, apex attenuate, 
margins entire, base rounded to suboblique; venation pluricostate, 4-6 
digitate, reticulate and coarsely areolate to the naked eye; petiole 1 cm, 
flattened above, hairy or glabrate; inflorescence a leaf-opposed spike, 
slender, solitary, peduncle 2 cm long and hirtellous; spike about 12 cm, 
narrow, tapering gradually to the apex. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9326 
date: Jan., 1994 
det.: WT 
