Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10067 Myristicaceae 
Endocomia macrocoma (Miq.) de Wilde 
ssp. prainii (King) de Wilde 
East Sepik Province, near Langu village, through the adjacent 
swampland and ascending the buttress ridge to the mountain above, 
near 4° 11’ S, 142M4’ E. 
on swamp flats, c. 40 m elev., 20 m tree; twigs terete, not lined 
between the petioles, apically orange-brown puberulent; leaves 
alternate, distichous, estipulate, coriaceous, glabrous, adaxially dark 
green x abaxially light green, lamina linear-oblong, average 28 cm x 
7 cm, apex obtuse then abruptly and shortly acuminate, margin 
entire, base rounded; petiole c. 1.5 cm, fleshy, distinctly 
canaliculate on the upper side; leaf venation pinnate, lateral pairs 
18-20,. closing with submarginal loops, plexus feeble, costa 
prominulous above, slightly more raised below, lateral veins equally 
embossed on both surfaces; flowers not seen; infructescence 
infrafoliar, pendant from old wood, paniculiform, to 15 cm length, 
pedunculate, axes ebracteate, smooth or corky and lenticellate; fruit 
ellipsoid, to 40 mm x 22 mm, pericarp green, fleshy but firm, no 
pseudostalk, apex rounded, exocarp entirely glabrous, smooth, not 
noticeably tuberculate; seed solitary, ellipsoid, 23 mm x 1 1 mm, aril 
entire, endosperm manifestly ruminate. 
t/Vaskuk name-upkil guma.’ No use reported. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 10067 
late: August 16, 1994 
let. WT 
