Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
13393 Rubiaceae 
Xanthophytum papuanum Wernham 
Morobe Province; NW of Waria River; buttress ridges 
above Wara Pao, near Yai Village, colls, centered on 
7° 57’ 14” S, 147° 35’ 55” E, natural growth hill and 
ridgeline forest, elev. 200-500 m. 
collection sequence 13382B-13399B; 1.5 m shrub; 
leaves herbaceous, adaxially medium green, abaxially 
pale green; indument orange-brown; calyx green, 
corolla white. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi et al. 13393 
date: June 16, 1999 
det.: WT, April 2001 
