Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 0360 Melastomataceae 
Pternandra sp. nov. 
original distr. as indet. (somewhat like Pternandra?) 
East Sepik Province; April River at Pinape; pristine lowland hill forest 
on mafic substrate, ascending Crestline at elev. 400 - 500’ altimeter (c. 
120 - 150 m); coils, centered on 4° 33’S latitude x 142° 34’E longitude. 
with Crypteronia 10359; understory shrub; several fertile individuals 
seen; main stem erect, secondary branches divaricate; twigs slender, 
covered with reddish-brown scales; leaves opposite, coriaceous, 
bullate, adaxial surface dark green x abaxially yellow-green with 
reddish-brown indumentum; lamina 5-plinerved, conspicuously 
reticulated; inflorescence axillary, few-flowered; hypanthium densely 
furfuraceous, operculate and circumsciss, brownish; corolla white, 
glabrous, imbricate and acute in bud, at least 5-merous; stigma 
discoid. 
flowers bottled. 
Bugabugi name = ‘me kame au.’ Said to have no specific use. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0830-M, -0831 -N, -0832-0, -0833-P, - 
0834-Q; corresponding to LF+TW+BR, SWD, RT, SBK+sapwood, 
BR+RTWD. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 10360 
date: July 21, 1995 
det.: S.S. Renner 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10361 Moraceae 
Ficus sp. 
East Sepik Province; April River at Pinape; pristine lowland hill forest 
on mafic substrate, ascending Crestline at elev. 600’ altimeter (183 m); 
colls, centered on 4° 33’S latitude x 142° 34’E longitude. 
canopy tree; buttress swell present; outer bark pustulate and dark 
brown; wood stramineous; twigs terete, dark brown or black; stipules 
acute, small, falling early; leaves alternate, scabrous on both surfaces; 
adaxial side dark green x abaxially light green; laterals about 5-7 pairs 
above a basal venation; figs globose, usually solitary, receptacle 
orange and granular. 
figs bottled. 
Bugabugi name = ’plo-a,’ (pronounced with a long vowel on the ‘o’ and 
‘a.’ Fruiting trees attract large frugiverous birds (especially kokomo and 
white parrots) and are used as a stakeout by hunters. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0835-R, -0836-S, -0837-T, -0838-U, -0839- 
V; corresponding to LF+TW+BR, RT+RTBK, TWD, TBK, BR+RTWD; 8 
herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 10361 
date: July 21, 1995 
det.: WT 
