Herbarium catalogue

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Flora of Papua New Guinea Lae National Herbarium 10340 Oleaceae Chionanthus sp. (laxiflorus-oxycarpus group) East Sepik Province; April River; Bugabugi 2 above Natawe; diverse lowland hill forest on mafics, ascending crestline at elev. 300’ altimeter (c. 90 m); colls. centered on 4° 33’S latitude x 142° 34’E longitude. with 10341-10342; understory treelet; vegetative parts glabrous; leaves opposite, distichous, pliant, dark dull green both surfaces; infructescence below the leaves, ramifying, rachides opposed, axes puberulent and minutely bracteate; fruits rostrate, epicarp pale dull green; seed 1. Bugabugi name = ‘tau-mei.’ Useful only for house construction. NCI screening code: OFCZ-0749-X, -0750-Y, -0751-Z, -0752-A, -0753- C; corresponding to LF, SBK+BR, RT, SWD, infructescence; 11 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. coll. W. Takeuchi 10340 date: July 20, 1995 det.. WT MQ00323 copyright reserved