Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10214 Moraceae 
Ficus subcuneata Miq. 
East Sepik Province, Waskuk Hills, first buttress ridge above the foot 
track between Garuka and Waskuk, territory of the Glei clan; hill forest 
at altimeter elev. 600’ (183 m); near 4 deg. 11’ S lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E 
long. 
with 10212-10213; subcanopy tree, lactiferous, basal swell present; 
outer bark smooth, wood orange-brown; twigs with an indumentum of 
setiferous hairs; leaves spiral, crowded at the apices, papery, adaxial 
surface dark dull green x abaxially yellow-green, hairs irritant; cystoliths 
papillose on the underleaf, lacking above; figs axillary, solitary, exuding 
copious latex; receptacle yellow-green, covered with pale aggressive 
hairs. 
Waskuk name = ‘kala hou me.’ The bark is stripped from trunks and 
made into skirts for sing-sings. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1054-H, -1055-1, -1056-J, -1057-K, -1058- 
L; corresponding to TWD, TBK, RT, BR, LF+RTWD; 8 herbarium 
duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi and J. Regalado 10214 
(= Regalado no. 1437) 
date: June 29, 1995 
det: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10215 Elaeocarpaceae 
Elaeocarpus (sepikanus complex) 
probably E. sepikanus Schltr. s.s. 
East Sepik Province, Waskuk Hills, first buttress ridge above the foot 
track between Garuka and Waskuk, territory of the Glei clan; hill forest 
at altimeter elev. 900’ (275 m); near 4 deg. IT S lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E 
long. 
w. collection sequence 10216-10219; canopy tree with buttress swell; 
twigs somewhat robust, acroscopically directed, cylindrical, apically 
tapered; leaves spiral, loosely clustered, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 
adaxial surface dark dull green x abaxially medium dull green; lamina 
broadly elliptic, margins crenate; petioles slender, to about 5 cm long, 
pulvinate at both poles; infructescence racemiform, among the leaves, 
obliquely ascending; drupes ovoid, epicarp dark blue and glaucous. 
Waskuk name = ‘yatkos bam.’ A source of edible larvae from decaying 
wood. Otherwise useful only as firewood. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1063-Q, -1064-R, -1065-S, -1066-T, -1067- 
U, -1068-V; corresponding to RTBK, RTWD, TWD, LF, TBK, BR; 8 
herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi and J. Regalado 10215 
(= Regalado no. 1440) 
date: June 29, 1995 
det.: WT, May 1997 
