Pycnarrhena ozantha Diels

Young stems and petioles puberulous, later glabrescent. Leaves with petioles (0.8-)1.2-2.3 cm; lamina mostly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, base rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate, 9-22 by 3-8 cm, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, linking towards the margin, reticulation prominent below, glabrous apart from midrib below. Inflorescences axillary or ramiflorous, fasciculate (or few-flowered racemes teste DIELS). Male flowers on puberulous pedicels 4-7 mm: sepals yel-low, c. 10, glabrous, the larger inner ones rotund, 2-2.5 mm long, sometimes the innermost smaller; petals absent (occasionally 1); stamens 9-15, 1 mm tightly clustered. Female flowers: sepals 12-15; petals absent; carpels 4-6, 1 mm. Drupe yellow to red, on slender 7-15 mm peduncle (incl. carpophore), subglobose, 1.2-2 cm ø, drying shrivelled with the surface forming irregular ridges, glabrous; endocarp bony, slightly curved, subreniform, bearing c. 5 dorsal rows of warty protuberances.

Forests up to 1600 m. Among limestone outcrops (New Ireland), on coral limestone (New He-brides), on red clay-loam with occasional basic volcanic boulders (New Britain). Fl. March, July, Sept., Dec; fr. Jan., March, Aug., Oct.