Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10066 Barringtoniaceae 
Barringtonia cf. sepikensis Laut. 
East Sepik Province, near Langu village, through the adjacent 
swampland and ascending the buttress ridge to the mountain above, 
near 4° 11’ S, 142° 44' E. 
with 10063 et seq.; elev. 250 m; c. 20 m tree on moderate slopes, 
subcrest of buttress ridge; bole straight to base, no buttress or swell, 
lacking sap or exudate, outer bark irregularly and transversely 
lineate; architecture leptocaul (definitely not monocaul) T twigs 
glabrous, smooth, green, channelled; leaves spiral, somewhat 
crowded, coriaceous to fleshy, ?stipulate, entirely glabrous, adaxial 
surface dark dull green x abaxially medium green, lamina 
obianceolate, to 39 cm x 14.5 cm, apex rounded or gradually 
acuminate, margin entire, base attenuate-decurrent; petiole to 2 
cm, fleshy, flattened above, smooth and green or transversely 
rugose; leaf venation pinnate, laterals 12-16 pairs, arcuate, not 
closing, laxly reticulate, main veins embossed above, prominulous 
below; flowers not seen; infructescence pendulous, interfoliar, to at 
least 13 cm long (all fructescences shattered during tree felling), 
pedunculate, racemiform?, axes fleshy and glabrous; fruit 
drupaceous, ovoid, 8 cm x 5 cm, pedicellate, pericarp fleshy, 
fibrous, 12 mm thick, exocarp yellow green, smooth and glabrous; 
style persistent at the summit, single, ascending from a flat disk 
recessed below the perianth insertion, margins of the disk raised, 
numerous staminal scars in several series beyond the disk rim; seed 
solitary, bony, 31 mm diameter, the interior indurate, nonruminate, 
endocarp weakly invaginate. 
Waskuk name- neeglia.’ The wood is used as a building material. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 10066 
date: August 16, 1994 
det. WT 
