Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11186 Sterculiaceae 
Sterculia ampla Bak. f. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia, along the Wara oo streamcourse (first river E of 
Mt. Widau); colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; 
riverine forest at altimeter elev. 2100’ (640 m). 
coll, sequence 11,175-11,188; canopy tree along river; most 
parts with a harsh and irritant indumentum; twigs robust, 
colonized by black ants on apical surfaces, many small plants 
germinating from the debris accumulated by the ants; stipules 
large, somewhat scarious, brown; leaves dry-textured, 
induplicate, geniculate, adaxial surface very dark dull green, 
abaxially medium green; typical in vivo blade much larger than 
the coll, material; veins yellow; petioles concolorously yellow as 
the leaf venation; fruits pendant; valves yellow-brown turning 
orange-red; indumentum felty; seeds oblong, testa purple-black. 
seeds are cooked and eaten. 
carpological and xylarium coll.s separate. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2179-F, -2180-G, -2181-H, -2182-1; 
corresponding to FR, TBK, LF+TW, TWD; 2 multiple sheet sets 
distributed through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,186 
date: Sept. 14, 1996 
det.: WT; 7/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11187 Meliaceae 
Aglaia sapindina (F.v.M.) Harms 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia, along the Wara oo streamcourse (first river E of 
Mt. Widau); colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; 
riverine forest at altimeter elev. 2100’ (640 m). 
coll, sequence 11,175-11,188; 5 m subarborescent on alluvial 
gravel and rock, with Sterculia ampla 11186; twigs subterete, 
inhabited by black ants, surfaces orange-brown; leaves 
papyraceous, adaxial surface dark green, yellow-green beneath, 
underleaf also with orange-brown peltate scales and green pits 
(turning red on the coll.); petiole flared and striate at base; 
infructescence terminal and axillary, all axes and fruits with 
reddish-brown stellate scales; fruits indehiscent, ovoid or 
subglobose, pericarp orange and soft; seeds 2, arilloid orange. 
xylarium coll. made. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2183-J, -2184-K, -2185-L, -2186-M; 
corresponding to LF, TW+BR, SBK+SWD, RTWD; 2 sets 
distributed through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,187 
date: Sept. 14, 1996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
