Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11111 Poly pod iaceae 
Belvisia mucronata (Fee) Copei. var. mucronata 
keys to this result on Hovenkamp & Franken 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia village; centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ 
E; regrowth forest with anthropogenic disturbance, average 
altimeter elev. 2425’ (740 m). 
coll, sequence 11,111-11,120; epiphytic fern; rhizome short- 
creeping; fronds firm-textured, upper surfaces yellow-green, 
glaucous beneath; venation obscure except for costae, midrib 
impressed; rhizome scales cancellate, all walls thickened, scales 
setiferous on margins. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,111 
date: Sept. 11,1 996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
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Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11112 Gesneriaceae 
Aeschynanthus sp. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia village; centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ 
E; regrowth forest with anthropogenic disturbance, average 
altimeter elev. 2425’ (740 m). 
coll, sequence 11,111-11,120; adhesive climber on tree trunks, 
common; stems terete, pale brown, radicant at the nodes; leaves 
firm or succulent, adaxially yellow-green, abaxially glaucous and 
opaquely punctate; calyx linear, mostly green; corolla pinkish-red, 
proximally globose, furnished with spreading reddish-black hairs 
on all parts, the hairs capitate; stamens slightly exserted past the 
limb; filaments white. 
flowers bottled. 
tokples name = ‘piahoyo,’ (pronounced with a long ‘o’). ‘Piahoyo’ 
is also the name of a bird (with a long curved bill) that reportedly 
draws nectar from the flowers of this plant. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,112 
date: Sept. 11,1996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
