Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Conservation International New Ireland RAP Survey 
10000 Loganiaceae 
Strychnos minor L. 
New Ireland, near the junction of the Niagara and Weitin Rivers (site 
2), mature lowland rainforest in and around transect 1, elev. 240 m, 
near 4° 30.210’ S, 152° 56’ 242” E. 
with coll sequence starting Archidendron 9904; woody vine with 
hanging aerial stems, glabrous; branchlets terete, pale brown, smooth; 
leaves opposite, coriaceous, adaxially glossy mid-green, abaxially light 
green, tendrils developed into a thickened hook; blades elliptic, 
typically 14 x 5.5 cm, apex acuminate, margin entire, base acute or 
rounded; petiole c. 5 mm, flat above, distinctly jointed to the stem, leaf 
cushion not obvious; venation 3— (5) plinerval, the upper pair inserted 
0.5-1 cm above the petiole, main veins weakly embossed above, 
raised beneath, reticulum irregular, not prominent; flowers not seen; 
infructescence terminal, pendant, ramifying, to slightly longer than 25 
cm, pedunculate, axes smooth or lenticellate; berries subglobose or 
ellipsoidal, to 34 x 28 mm, immature, mucronate, exocarp shining 
green, smooth, hard; seeds 1-3, compressed. 
coll: W. Takeuchi & J. Wiakabu 10000 
date: January 1994 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Conservation International New Ireland RAP Survey 
10001 Euphorbiaceae 
Glochidion sp. ?nov., aff. angulatum C.B. Rob. 
New Ireland, near the junction of the Niagara and Weitin Rivers (site 2), 
mature lowland rainforest in and around transect 1, elev. 240 m, near 
4° 30.210’ S, 152° 56’ 242” E. 
with coll sequence starting Archidendron 9904; subarborescent; 
branchlets angulate, sulcate, light brown, hirteilous; leaves alternate, 
coriaceous, patently hairy, adaxially dark dull green, bullate, abaxially 
dull mid-green, undersurfaces marked by remnant bulbous bases of 
the hairs; lamina lanceolate or ovate, to 142 x 77 mm, apex acute or 
acuminate, margin entire, base subcordate; venation penninerval, 
laterals 5-8 pairs, arcuate, coarsely and irregularly areolate, costae 
prominulous on both sides; inflorescence mostly axillary, occasionally 
between nodes, fascicled, epedunculate, entirely green; flowers minute, 
unisexual (sp. monoecious); male flowers: pedicelled, tepals 3+3, the 
outer ones hairy and tuberculate, inner ones smaller, stamens connate 
in a central column, anthercells linear, erect, connective appendaged; 
female flowers sessile or nearly so, perigone 5-6 partite, persistent in 
the fruit, hairy; schizocarp dull white with a weak pinkish cast, patently 
hairy, not deeply lobed, ca 11-12 sulcate, slightly compressed, 8x10 
mm, apex pitted. 
flowers and fruits bottled. 
coll: W. Takeuchi & J. Wiakabu 10001 
date: January 1994 
det.: WT 
