Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11150 Rubiaceae 
Argostemma bryophilum K. Schum. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
E of Haia village; colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ 
E; hill forest with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 
2425-2700’ (740-823 m). 
coll, sequence 1 1,146-1 1,174; terrestrial herb, conspecific to coll. 
1 1 ,1 32 from same general area. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,150 
date: Sept. 13, 1996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11151 Gesneriaceae 
Cyrtandra cf. decurrens de Vriese 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
E of Haia village; colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ 
E; hill forest with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 
2700’ (823 m). 
coll, sequence 11,146-11,174; population on forested slope, 
mostly fruiting, very few flowering individuals; terrestrial 
understory herbs, monocaul, <.5 m height, often procumbent; 
stems green, terete, annulate, juicy; leaves opposite, decussate, 
obliquely spreading, fleshy and brittle, bullate, adaxially dark dull 
green, abaxially pale green or glaucescent; flowers axillary, 
bracts foliose; calyx provided with brown setiform hairs; corolla 
with subequal lobes, hairs white; staminodes 3; style white and 
hairy, stigma discoid; stamens not seen; fruits subovoid, 
greenish-brown and hard (villagers report the fruit is white when 
ripe but this was never observed to be the case), epicarp 
tuberculate. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,1 51 
date: Sept. 13, 1996 
det.: WT, 8/97 
