Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11129 Melastomataceae 
Otanthera cyanoides Triana 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village, ascending slopes of Mt. Widau; colls, centered 
on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with anthropogenic 
disturbance, altimeter elev. 2425-2550’ (740-777 m). 
coll, sequence 11,121-11,145; terrestrial shrub; stems angulate, 
setiferous, hairs purple; petals white, 5; ovary white or green, 
becoming baccate and red in fruit, provided with reddish-brown 
stellate bristles. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1,129 
date: Sept. 12, 1996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11130 Araliaceae 
Schefflera schumanniana Harms 
ssp. schumanniana 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
Mt. Widau near Haia village; colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ 
S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter 
elev. 2550’ (777 m). 
coll, sequence 11,121-11,145; climber starting from ground; 
stems pale brown, terete; leaves sub-bullate, adaxial surface dark 
green, abaxially pale green; leaflets elliptic-oblong, caudate, 
undersurface subglabrous, occasionally with distant and minutely 
stellate scales, petioles proximally swollen; infructescence 
sparingly branched, overmature on most duplicates, all axes 
stellately scaly; umbellules peduncled, the peduncles not 
persistently bracteate at the base; fruits sessile, angled, orange- 
yellow, furfuraceous at the receptacle. 
coll . : W. T akeuchi 1 1 , 1 30 
date: Sept. 12, 1996 
det.: WT; 12/97 
