Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10049 Verbenaceae 
Clerodendrum tracyanum (F. Muell.) Benth. 
East Sepik Province, near Langu village; from margins of Metroxylon 
swamp and on lower slopes of adjacent hills, elev. 40-200 m, near 
4° 11’ S, 142° 44’ E. 
w. 10042 et seq.; serai treelet; branchlets quadrangular, strigulose; 
leaves opposite, spiral, exstipulate, somewhat fleshy, patently hairy 
on both sides, adaxially dark green, rugose x abaxially light green; 
lamina ovate or subcordate, to 26 cm (basal sinus included) x 20 
cm, apex acuminate, margin entire, base cordate; petiole c. 15 cm, 
strictly terete, pubescent; leaf penninerved, laterals 6-10 arcuate 
pairs, not closing, reticulum lax, irregular, manifest, all nervation 
immersed above, prominent beneath; flowers not seen; 
infructescence terminal, paniculiform, ultimately cymose, to nearly 
15 cm length, pedunculate, all axes provided with a spreading 
indumentum, not noticeably bracteate; calyx persistent on the fruit, 
synsepalous, fleshy, purple, tube cupular with limb 5-fid, the lobes 
divaricate after fruit fall, strigulose on exterior surfaces, glabrous 
inside; drupe globose, apex 4-sulcate, exocarp smooth, glabrous, 
dull black. 
Waskuk name=’mitchem.’ The wood is reportedly used for house 
construction. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 10049 
date: August 15, 1994 
det. WT 
