Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9306 Urticaceae 
Elatostema polioneuron Hall. f. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, hillside at 9 mile, near the police 
checkpoint; moderate slopes in disturbed lowland forest, elev. 200-400 
m. 
0.5-1 m suffrutex, non-stinging; stems green, smooth and elenticellate, 
articulated; twigs glossy light green, terete; leaves alternate, distichous, 
glabrous, herbaceous, upper side dark green weakly shining x abaxially 
pale green; stipules subulate, evanescent, light green and glabrescent; 
infructescence axillary, condensed, ramifying, all axes white or pale 
colored; bracts triangular and teethlike, inconspicuous, brown; achenes 
minute, ovoid, testa smooth, reddish or brown, erostrate; perianth 
persisting, 4-5 lobes, the lobes unequal, swollen in aspect; flowers not 
seen. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9306 
date: Dec. 21,1993 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9307 Solanaceae 
Solanum cf. oliverianum Lauterb. & K. Schum. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, lowland forest near the 9-11 mile 
settlement, foothill forest, <300 m elev. 
woody climber; main stem 3.5 cm diameter, outer bark scaly, pale brown, 
lenticellate, the lenticels large and knobby; stem radial, outer wood 
whitish, heartwood yellow brown, composed of large pores; twigs terete 
and glabrate, pale brown, occasionally fractiflex; leaves paired, 
approximated to one side, coriaceous or slightly fleshy, glabrous, glossy 
dark green and white punctulate above x abaxially yellow-green, lamina 
elliptic-lanceolate (large blade) to ovate-suborbicular (small blade); fruits 
not seen; inflorescence axillary, in congested fascicles on umbonate 
knobs; pedicels slender, purple, glabrous, passing insensibly to the calyx; 
calyx tube cupular, purple and verruculose, glabrous, accrescent, margin 
truncate; corolla deeply 5-fid, lobes ovate-lanceolate, white, apices acute 
and adaxially beaked, the beak comose; outer petal surfaces puberulent, 
inside with glandular hairs; androecium of 5 stamens, free, approximate 
and coherent about the style, purple, epipetalous below the corolline 
sinuses, filaments short, anthers 2-thecate, ?biporicidal, erect, basifixed; 
gynoecium superior, ovary yellow, lustrous, glabrous, globose, entire, 
crowned by the cylindrical style; style purple and glabrous, terminating in a 
green slightly widened stigma; immature berry subglobose and glabrous, 
epicarp green, 
bottled coll at A. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9307 
date: Jan., 1994 
det.: WT 
