Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10151 Meliaceae 
Aglaia rimosa (Blanco) Merrill 
original distr. as Aglaia lawii (Wight) Saldanha ex Ramamoorthy 
East Sepik Province, near Garuka village; forest on alluvial flats at 50 
m elev., near 4° 11’ S, 142° 44’ E. 
with 10132; understory shrub, twigs slender, terete, lepidote, apical bud 
elongate and stiffly erect; leaves alternate, spiral, exstipulate, pellucid 
punctulate, imparipinnate, mostly 2-jugate; petiole weakly swollen at the 
base, with rachis together to approx. 10 cm, both axes terete or slightly 
flattened on the upper side, lepidote, petiolule to nearly 1 cm, not 
swollen; leaflets subcoriaceous, adaxial surface medium dull green, 
glabrate x abaxially yellow green and lepidote, blades elliptic, 
diminishing in size toward the petiole, apical segment to c. 16.5 cm x 
5.25 cm, apex acute to subacuminate, margin entire, base cuneate; 
venation pinnate, laterals c. 8-10 arcuate pairs, reticulum lax and 
irregular, main venation flush above, prominulous below; flowers not 
seen; infructescence terminal, racemiform or very sparingly ramifying, 
to c. 30 cm, pedunculate, all axes terete and lepidote, berry globose, 
2.5 cm diameter, loculicidal, exocarp orange and scaly, valves 2; seeds 
2, suboblongoid with a flat commissural face, covered with a 
translucent arilloid envelope. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 10151 
date: August 25, 1994 
det. C. Pannell 
