Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11170 Gesneriaceae 
Cyrtandra sp., § Loxophyllum/Phaeotrichium 
conspecific with coll. 11183 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia village; colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 
145° 00’ E; swamp forest with anthropogenic disturbance, 
altimeter elev. 2425’ (740 m). 
coll, sequence 11,146-11,174; miniature ground subshrub 0.5 m 
height; stems terete, soft, dark green, hairs dark brown; leaves 
opposite and decussate, thick, very brittle, conspicuously bullate, 
adaxially very dark green, abaxially yellow-green; inflorescence 
lax, from defoliate lower axils or from leafy axils; calyx light green 
with dark brown hairs; corolla type 3+2, dorsal 3 much larger than 
the 2 ventral segments; lobes patent; fruits linear-fusiform, 
epicarp green. 
flowers bottled. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,170 
date: Sept. 13, 1996 
det.: WT, May 1999 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11171 Begoniaceae 
Begonia serratipetala Irmscher 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia village; colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 
145° 00’ E; swamp forest with anthropogenic disturbance, 
altimeter elev. 2425’ (740 m). 
coll, sequence 11,146-11,174; terrestrial herb; stems terete, 
reddish-purple, swollen above the nodes; leaves pliant, adaxial 
surface dark green, abaxially reddish-purple and concolorous 
with stem; blade margins irregularly incised; inflorescence entirely 
red, same coloration as stem. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,171 
date: Sept. 13, 1996 
det.: WT; 12/97 
