Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10102 Thymelaeaceae 
Phaleria coccinea (Gaudich.) F.v.M. 
East Sepik Province; near top of ridge N of Garuka, above coll. 
10101, elev. c. 300 m, near 4° 11’ S, 142° 44’ E. 
3-4 m understory shrub, no flowers, glabrous, virgate; branchlets 
slender, slightly compressed, somewhat smooth; leaves lax, opposite, 
distichous, spreading, exstipulate, herbaceous, adaxial surface dark 
dull green x abaxially yellow green, lamina linear-elliptic, average 
32.5 cm x 8 cm, apex acuminate-subcaudate, margin entire, blade 
tapering to the petiole; petioles 1 cm, green, slightly swollen, terete, 
transversely rugose; leaf venation pinnate, laterals about 11-14 pairs, 
curving, closing or not, irregularly reticulate; costa embossed above, 
other veins plane, midrib prominent below with the laterals 
prominulous; infructescence axillary at lower nodes, never terminal, 
sometimes cauline. or at least infrafoliar, umbelliform in a 
capitate/glomerate mass, c. 16 fruits per cluster; fruit drupaceous, 
yellow green, entirely glabrous, somewhat globose, typically 
compressed, rounded at both ends, weakly rostrate, pericarp fleshy; 
seed single or 2, black, beaked, exarillate. 
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Waskuk name not recorded. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 10102 
date: August 19, 1994 
det. WT 
