Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Conservation International New Ireland RAP Survey 
9354 Halogoraceae 
Gunnera macrophylla Bl. 
New Ireland, Hans Meyer Range; Angil Mountain, pristine subcloud forest 
dominated by bryophytic and ferny growth, elev. c. 1800 m, centered 
around 152 deg. 56.8’ E x4 deg. 25.2’S (coll, site 4). 
with sequence starting Lycopodium 9339; terrestrial herb c. 50 cm height, 
stoloniferous, acaulescent or short-stemmed, erect, herbage strigulose 
or somewhat squamulose over most parts; leaves spirally inserted, 
exstipulate, thickly coriaceous, adaxial surface dark dull green, rugose x 
abaxially light green with all venation prominent, long-petiolate; petioles c. 
30 cm, swollen at the base, flattened above, light green and red- 
streaked; lamina reniform, larger blades 17 cm x 23 cm, margins 
irregularly toothed, venation palmate, pluricostate and coarsely reticulate, 
plexus manifest on both leaf surfaces; inflorescence axillary from an 
apical leaf, ascending, linear-paniculate to c. 15 cm length, shortly 
pedunculate, conspicuously bracteate, all axes hispidulose, light green, 
lateral axes spicate, to c. 3 cm long, flowers heterogamous, the males on 
the lower part of the panicle. 
coll: W. Takeuchi & J. Wiakabu 9354 
date: Feb. 3, 1994 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Conservation International New Ireland RAP Survey 
9359 Lomariopsidaceae 
Elaphoglossum sp. 
New Ireland, Hans Meyer Range; Angil Mountain, pristine subcloud forest 
dominated by bryophytic and ferny growth, elev. c. 1800 m, centered 
around 152 deg. 56.8’ E x 4 deg. 25.2’S (coll, site 4). 
with sequence starting Lycopodium 9339; epiphyte; rhizome short- 
creeping, dorsiventral, squamose, scales somewhat coarse and linear- 
acuminate, phyllopodia absent but the older stipe bases often persisting, 
rhizome vasculature of one basal strand and a short (slightly elongate) 
dorsal strand; stipes to 30 cm, green, strictly terete, scabrid, not 
articulated to the rhizome, sparsely squamose at the base, apically 
becoming stellately lepidote, stipe vasculature of about 5 circular strands; 
fronds avg. 70 cm length; lamina firm, brittle when flexed, stellately 
lepidote, concolorously green on both surfaces, blades undulate, linear, 
tapering to the apex, more abruptly closed below, average blade 35 cm x 
2 cm when sterile, slightly contracting to 1 .25 cm width when sporiferous; 
venation free, pinnate from costae, divaricate, typically once-bifurcate, 
parallel and straight, ends capitate near the margin; sporangia 
exindusiate, eparaphysate, acrostichoid. 
coll: W. Takeuchi & J. Wiakabu 9359 
date: Feb. 3, 1994 
det.: WT 
