Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9308 Gesneriaceae 
Cyrtandra sp. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, hills near 9 mile settlement; disturbed 
lowland forest at elev. 200-400 m, moderate slopes. 
understory suffrutex, in shade, height 1-1.5 m with many branches; 
stems terete, annulate, periderm smooth, whitish-tan at the base, apically 
becoming ferruginous tomentose; leaves alternate, distichous, divergent, 
coriaceous, adaxial surface very dark dull green, rugose, glabrous x 
abaxially pale green to glaucescent, tomentulose on the veins, 
puberulous intervenium; seemingly stipulate, the ‘stipules’ extra-axillary, 
linear acuminate-subulate, 18 mm long, puberulent; lamina elliptic, typical 
blade 28 cm x 9.5 cm, apex acuminate, margin serrate, base acute often 
unequal; petiole c. 1 cm, adaxially flat, resembling the twigs; venation 
unicostate, manifestly penniveined, laterals c. 12-16 pairs, diverging 
about 45 deg. from the costa, weakly arcuate, usually closing with an 
angulate loop, reticulate, the major crossing nerves irregular, obliquely 
directed at the midrib; fruits not seen; inflorescence solitary or fascicled 
at the nodes, among the leaves or cauline, axillary or extra-axillary, 
subtended by an involucre of bracts, the bracts variously sized, often 
appearing before the flowers, acuminate-subulate; flowers entirely white, 
pedicels 5 mm, puberulous with uniseriate trichomes; perianth 
bichlamydeous, calyx gamosepalous, tubular and variously lobate, 
apparently splitting irregularly with the segments reflexing at anthesis; 
corolla zygomorphic, 5-partite (4+1), outer surface glabrate, inner 
surfaces with capitate glandular hairs, lobes acute and reflexing; 
androecium of 2 functional stamens, anthers connivent by their heads, 
glabrous, filaments noncontorted, epipetalous, each with a lingulate 
corolline appendage at the pt. of adnation, staminodes not obvious; 
gynoecium: ovary umbonate, shiny green, glabrous, disk annular not 
unilateral, yellowish, glabrous, style terminal, terete, isodiametric, 
glabrate, ending in the bilobed stigma. 
flowers bottled; reference photos 1993-292 to -296 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9308 
date: Dec. 26, 1993 
det.: WT 
