Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9312 Cyatheaceae 
Cyathea sp. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, hills nr 9 mile settlement outside Lae, 
elev. 200-400 m in disturbed lowland forest 
with 9307; arborescent; understory fern with caudex to c. 3 m height, 
architecture comose; stock unbranched, assurgent, radial, 3 cm 
diameter, indurate, older sections fuscous, not enveloped by scales or 
adventitious roots, spinose, the armature 2 mm long, divergent, stipe 
bases not persisting on the stem but abscissing irregularly, apex with 
pale nonpeltate and nonclathrate scales; fronds spirally conferted on the 
caudex, to slightly >1.3 m, stipitate; stipes 15-20 cm, green to black, 
shortly echinate, the spines black and resembling those on the caudex, 
stipe flattened above and with a shallow channel, glabrate, 
pneumathodes present on each side of the stipe and rachis as an 
intermittent brown line; rachis terete, green or brown, pubescent, 
nonchannelled; frond bipinnate-tripinnatisect, thickly herbaceous, upper 
surface dark dull green x light dull green below, puberulous on the veins 
of both sides, rachides resembling the rachis but with 2 narrow and green 
alae on the margins, indumentum similar; frond widest near the middle 
(c. 75 cm wide) then reducing at either end, primary pinnae conform, 
pinnules oblong, typically 7 mm x 3 mm, margins serrulate, vasculature 
of the rachis sheetlike and arcuate; venation free to the margin, ea 
pinnule with veinlets pinnate about the costule, the veins pellucid; sorus 
globose, exindusiate, borne on the veins in a sinuate pattern, 
reference photos 1 993-300 to -303 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9312 
date: Dec. 26, 1993 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9313 Acanthaceae 
Strobilanthes s.l. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, lowland forest near the 9 mile 
settlement, elev. 200-400 m. 
herb in old subsistence plot; stems repent but the ends ascending; twigs 
green with patent and septate hairs; leaves opposite, lax, exstipulate, 
chartaceous, adaxial side dark dull green and strigose x abaxially purple 
and hirsute on veins otherwise strigose; lamina scutate, margins crenate; 
inflorescence spiciform, congested and conferted at the peduncle apex, 
solitary or 2 together; flowers in the axils of foliose bracts, the bracts 
elliptic-oblanceolate, purple, puberulous; perianth bichlamydeous, 5- 
merous; calyx linear, setose, free; corolla sympetalous, subglabrous, 
salverform, contorted in bud, segments rounded and venose, throat hairy; 
androecium didynamous, upper stamens exserted, the subordinate 
stamens adnate to the corolla except for a short section immediately 
below the anthers; the adnate filaments with spreading hairs, anthers 
oblong, thecae 2, opening lengthwise; ovary superior, linear-oblong, 
bearded at the distal pole otherwise glabrous; style long and puberulous, 
apical, stigma linear; disk not apparent; fruit not seen. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9313 
date: Dec. 13, 1993 
det.: WT 
