Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11158 Urticaceae 
Poikilospermum paxianum (Winkl.) Merr. 
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; climber in forest clearing on steep 
slope; twigs terete, hairs pale and spreading; stipules foliose, 
green, conduplicate; leaves papyraceous or pliant, adaxial 
surfaces dark dull green, pale green beneath; veins yellowish- 
green, nervation scalariform; entire inflorescence light red; 
flowers unisexual, female: pedicellate, stigma penicillate. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,158 
date: Sept. 13, 1996 
det.: WT; 7/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11159 Athyriaceae 
Diplazium acrocarpum Ros., or aff. 
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 1 1,146-1 1,174; terrestrial fern; caudex short; stipe 
and rachis atropurpureous, vasculature a typical asplenoid 
pattern; frond proliferous; leaf brittle, upper surfaces dark dull 
green, underfrond yellow-green. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,1 59 
date: Sept. 13, 1996 
det.: WT ; 8/97 
