Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11172 Gesneriaceae 
Cyrtandra sp. 
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 monocaul less than 0.5 
m height; stems cylindrical, soft, fuscous; leaves pseudoalternate, 
dry-papery, bullate, adaxial surface very dark dull green, abaxially 
glaucescent; bracts filamentose, blackish; no open flowers seen; 
calyx light yellow-green. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,172 
date: Sept. 13, 1996 
det.: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11173 Zingiberaceae 
Reidelia macrantha K. Schum., § Macrantha 
keys to this result on Valeton 
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; common ground herb 2 m height; 
leaf sheaths reddish-green, glabrous; ligules rounded, short (less 
than 1 cm), glabrous; lamina coriaceous, adaxial surface dark 
green, abaxially medium green, base attenuate, sessile on the 
sheath or nearly so; inflorescence terminal, paniculate, laxly 
branched, glabrous, axes entirely red or purple; calyx bright red, 
tubular, 29 mm overall length (spirit), limb 3-dentate; corolla (in 
bud) white with green summit, at anthesis tube 27 mm long 
(spirit), total length 65 mm (spirit) or c. 5 cm in sicco, dorsal lobe 
corniculate, lateral segments obtuse, labellum deeply cleft with 
smaller lobes at the top; stigma capitate, anthers exserted past 
the connective; ovary purple-black, 3-locular, axile placentation; 
fruits purple-red. 
flowers bottled. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,173 
date: Sept. 13, 1996 
det.: WT; 1/98 
