Author: Verdcourt
Morphological description
Tree to 18 m high; young shoots glabrous.
Leaves (im)paripinnate, 4-6-foliolate; petiolules 3-5 mm. Leaflets elliptic-oblong, 5.5-7.4 by 2.4-3.5 cm, acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, glabrous; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; lateral nerves c. 20, close, the tertiary venation reticulate; with pellucid dots. (tenuicarpa Prioria TYPE detail )
Flowers not seen.
Pods irregularly ovate, slightly obcordate, 4.2-4.7 by 3.7-4.2 by 1.5-1.9 cm, densely rugulose, glabrous, the pericarp much thinner than that of P. novoguineense. (tenuicarpa Prioria TYPE detail )
Seeds slightly smaller than the pod.
Distribution
Malesia: Papua New Guinea (West Sepik Prov.).
Habitat & Ecology
Lowland rain forest on limestone ridge, 120 m altitude. Fruiting in January.