October 2010. Seeds found in a box with other collections from PNG; what tree do they belong to?

It was thought that they belong to Heritiera littoralis, the Looking-glass tree.

Compare with a herbarium sample (photo, right) collected at a breach site in Morobe Province, PNG: Heritiera littoralis Malvaceae K. Kerenga LAE74292, 29 Sep 1978. Locality: Papua New Guinea, Morobe: Apo beach. (06 44 0 S,147 00 0 E) – www.pngplants.org/specImages/LAE244030b.jpg

Found using the online Plants of Papua New Guinea database: www.pngplants.org/search.htm