The Nature Conservancy Botanical Survey 
Flora of Josephstaal, Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
13053-B Araliaceae 
Osmoxylon (closest to) sessiliflorum (Laut.) Philipson 
Madang Province, Josephstaal FMA area, near the 
Guam River bridge campsite: GPS 275.181 E, 
9496.459 N (Annanberg sheet); alluvial flats with a 
successional terrace sequence from regrowth to 
mature forest; elev. c. 85 m. 
coll, sequence 13050-13055; understory shrub on 
riverine margins; young parts furfuraceous, leaves 
herbaceous, not fleshy-brittle, light green, undersides 
with persisting indument; pseudofruits pedicelled; 
lateral rays articulate; ovary with 10 cells. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi & E. Saxon et al. 13053-B 
date: September 10, 1998 
det.: WT; Nov. 27, 1999 
The Nature Conservancy Botanical Survey 
Flora of Josephstaal, Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
13054 Annonaceae 
Pseuduvaria sp. 
conspecific series 13054, 13423, 13733, 13856 
Madang Province, Josephstaal FMA area, near the 
Guam River bridge campsite: GPS 275.181 E, 
9496.459 N (Annanberg sheet); alluvial flats with a 
successional terrace sequence from regrowth to 
mature forest; elev. c. 85 m. 
coll, sequence 13050-13055; understory shrub; 
leaves herbaceous, bullate, opaquely medium green 
both sides; fruits globose, subsessile, indument of 
brown hairs. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi & E. Saxon et al. 13054 
date: September 10, 1998 
det.: WT; Dec. 1999 
