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Saurauia taylorii
A regrowth shrub in a genus with approximately 50 other species in New Guinea. Saurauia taylorii has the smallest leaves of any other member of its group, and is one of only three Saurauia with smooth, glossy foliage.
It was named after fisheries biologist Garth Taylor, a former President of the environmental consulting group PT Hatfield Indonesia (Bogor, Indonesia).
Scientific Name
Saurauia taylorii
Where
In the Enga Province, Papua New Guinea: Omyaka bivouac, mixed community mosaic of montane forest patches and interspersed regrowth
When
Discovered during Conservation International’s RAP expedition to the Kaijende Highlands of central Papua New Guinea in 2005
Field Notes
Known only from the Kaijende Highlands of Enga Province, near the Porgera gold mine.
Finder
Wayne Takeuchi (Forest Research Institute, PNG)