Pycnarrhena novoguineensis Miq.

Leaves with glabrous to sparsely puberulous petioles 1.5-3.5 cm; lamina elliptic or oblong-elliptic, apex acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, 18-28 by 4.5-8(-9.5) cm, lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, often impressed above, venation obscure or prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences axillary or ramiflorous, branched, 1.5-7 cm long, puberulous (the ramiflorous inflorescences are larger and more branched than the axillary ones). Male flowers with pedicels up to 3 mm, or sessile; outer sepals 1-2, minute; inner sepals 3-6, ± rotund, concave, 2-2.25 mm long; petals 3-4 obovate, 1 mm long; stamens 9-16, the cluster c. 0.5 mm long. Female flowers with pedicels, sepals and petals ± as in male flowers; carpels 3, subellipsoidal, 1 mm long. Infructescence slender, branched, up to 7 cm, often rather elongate. Drupes yellow, globose, 0.8-1 cm ø, glabrous; endocarp crustaceous.

Forests at low altitude, up to 50 m. According to a field note the male flowers are heavily scented.