Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11136 Zingiberaceae 
Pleuranthodium macropycnanthum (Val.) R.M. Smith 
keys to Alpinia macropycnantha in Valeton 
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 herb; leaves 
papyraceous, withering and rolling quickly after coll., adaxial 
surface dark green, abaxially light green; leaf sheaths smooth 
and green, puberulent, striate but not tesseiate; ligule small and 
pubescent; raceme nodding; flowers completely glabrous; calyx 
margin jagged, apparently circumscissile; corolla translucent 
white, the segments with yellow summits; labellum shorter than 
the filament, adnate to the stamen, provided with large callosities 
at the throat of the tube; style cylindrical; stigma geniculate, not 
dilated; capsules obovoid, epicarp shining red. 
flowers bottled. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,136 
date: Sept. 12, 1996 
det.: WT; 1/98 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11137 Bignoniaceae 
Tecomanthe dendrophila (Bl.) K. Sch. 
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; low-stratum climber; stems pale 
brown, smooth or lenticellate; leaves fleshy, adaxial surface dark 
green, pale green beneath; calyx red; corolla tube reddish-pink, 
limb cream-colored. 
flowers bottled. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,137 
date: Sept. 12, 1996 
det.: WT; 7/97 
