Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9286 Orchidaceae 
Spathoglottis plicata Blume ssp. puberula Howcroft ined. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, inland from the 9 mile settlement, 
lowland rainforest at elev. 200-400 m. 
1.2 m erect terrestrial herb in forest clearing; pseudobulbs ovoid, 
clustered together, often occurring as offsets from a larger bulb, covered 
with venose and marescent sheaths; leaves several, coriaceous, plicate, 
concolorously dull yellow-green both sides, adaxially glabrous, 
puberulous beneath; inflorescence lateral from the pseudobulb, to c. 75 
cm long, erect; axes slender, terete, yellow green and puberulent; flowers 
clustered at the summit, each blossom subtended by a showy purple 
bract; perianth entirely purple and glabrous, petals and sepals subequal, 
subelliptic; column also purple, slightly curving; labellum conspicuously 
trilobate, purple, the 2 lateral lobes oblong and erect, midlobe narrowly 
clawed, distally flabellate and with a distinct notch. 
flowers bottled, at A. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9286 
date: Dec. 1, 1993 
det.: N.H.S. Howcroft 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9287 Gesneriaceae 
Cyrtandra schumanniana Schltr. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, inland from the 9 mile settlement, 
lowland rainforest at elev. 200-400 m. 
with 9285 et seq.; understory shrub in deep shade; stems terete, pale 
brown, apical intervals densely covered by spreading dark reddish-brown 
hairs; leaves seemingly alternate (with one member of each leaf pair 
reduced to a stipule-like member), distichous, thickly herbaceous but 
fragile, adaxial surface v. dark green, glossy, rugose, glabrate x abaxially 
dull yellow-green and pubescent esp. along the veins; the stipuliform leaf 
subulate, yellow-green and fleshy becoming pale brown and more firm 
with age, hairs yellow-brown; lamina elliptic-oblanceolate, typical blade 25 
x 8 cm, apex cuspidate, margin coarsely serrate, each serration apiculate 
from an excurrent nerve, comose with brown hairs, base subacute and 
unequal; lateral venation in 10-11 pairs, oblique, broadly arcuate near the 
margin, terminating at a tooth and with a nerve excurrent, highly areolate 
between, the plexus manifest; petioles _1 cm, flattened above, usually 
with hairs as the stem; fruits not seen; bracts linear to filiform, densely 
pubescent, somewhat caducous; flowers solitary or 2 at a node, extra- 
axillary, bisexual, bilateral, pedunculate; calyx gamosepalous, entirely red, 
velutinous, lobes 4 or 5, unequal, the dorsal ones crowded, the 2 ventral 
ones much larger, at anthesis all with spreading or recurved caudate 
apices, the cauda distinctly white; corolla sympetalous, concolorous with 
the calyx, differing in the glandular hairs, 4+1 lobulate; androecium of 2 
functional stamens, adnate to the tube, no corolline appendages; 
filaments white, not contorted, bearing capitate hairs near the anthers, 
otherwise glabrous; connective dilate; anthers cohering by their heads, 
basifixed; thecae opening lengthwise; ovary white, glabrescent, 
surrounded by an uneven annular and glabrous disk; style white, glabrous 
at the base, distally with capitate hairs; stigma discoid, somewhat 
bilabiate. 
flowers bottled, at A. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9287 
date: Dec. 1,1993 
