Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
13144 Rubiaceae 
Psychotria morobensis Sohmer 
Morobe Province; NW of Waria River; foothills N of 
Wara Pao near Yai Village, colls, centered on 7° 57’ 
14” S, 147° 35’ 55” E, natural growth hill forest with 
low-statured canopy and open understory; elev. 150 
m. 
collection sequence 13134-13151; subarborescent 4- 
5 m in height, sparingly and irregularly branched; 
branchlets terete, juicy, smooth, green with brown 
articulations at the nodes; stipules acute or triangular, 
translucent white to pale brown; leaves fleshy, 
adaxially dark shiny green, abaxially pale green; 
flowers in 2—5 flowered sessile heads; corolla tube 
linear-ovoid, hyaline, whitish-pink with pale green 
lobes, the lobes 5, linear-acuminate; flowers 
subtended by 2 light green bracts, bracteoles hyaline 
white-pink; fruits clustered on single peduncles, 
subglobose to obovoid, at first white then turning dark 
red, peduncle pale green, calycine remnant (when 
present) cylindrical, orange or green 
1 flower cluster bottled. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi et al. 13144 
date: June 5, 1999 
det.: WT, April 2001 
