Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10137 Meliaceae 
Aglaia tomentosa Teijsm. & Binn. 
East Sepik Province, near Garuka village; forest on alluvial flats at 50 
m elev., near 4° 11’ S, 142° 44’ E. 
with 10132; 3 m shrub in understory, virtually all parts stellately 
tomentose, the hairs ferruginous, branchlets terete, ending in a slender 
and erect apical bud; leaves alternate, spirally placed, lax, pellucid 
punctate, imparipinnate, c. 4-jugate; petiole slightly swollen at the 
base, with rachis together to approx. 30 cm length, both axes terete 
and densely hairy; petiolules c. 5 mm; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate, typical 
larger segment 17.5 cm x 6 cm, the size diminishing toward the 
petiole, leaf texture papery to subcoriaceous, adaxial surface dark dull 
green x abaxially yellow green, apex long-acuminate to caudate, 
margins entire, base rounded or suboblique; leaf venation pinnate, 
lateral pairs approx. 10-18, divergent then abruptly arcuate near the 
margin, reticulum rather faint, with crossbarring, main veins flush 
above, prominulous beneath; flowers not seen; fructescence axillary, 
narrowly paniculiform, cernuous, c. 30 cm long, peduncle 15 cm, 
terete, tomentose; fruit oval, approx. 22 mm x 13 mm, exocarp orange; 
seed solitary, testa black and smooth. 
Waskuk name not recorded. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 10137 
date: August 24, 1994 
det. WT; conf. Fannell on A specimen 
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