Uvaria L.

University of Illinois at Chicago
PLANTS OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
ANNONACEAE
Vvaria sp.
Det. By:
Field Char: Shrub/1 reelet; petioles/stem tips w/
red-brown hair#; berries & pedicels
orange-yellow; FR sparsely hairy, single
seeded, endosperm ruminate & yellow, sepals
persistent on developing infructescences.
Notes: Species in understory. Additions detailed
descriptions are at the Field Museum, Chicago.
Locality: Morobe Province: between the Busu and
Sankwep Rivers, near Gwabadik.
Habitat: Mature lowland forest, on banks of a
shallow stream bed.
360 m, 6°33’S X 146°59’E
W. Takeuchi 8769, February 11, 1993
This is a voucher specimen for
anticancel and anti-AIDS screening
NCI Sample Number(s): U44Z6297-G, U44Z6298-H.
Collected under the sponsorship of: U.S. National Cancer
Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, Arnold
Arboretum (Harvard University), Field Museum of
Natural History and Forest Research Institute, Lae.
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