Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11188 Rubiaceae 
Versteegia minor Valeton 
conspecific with coll. 11213, 11930 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia, main ridge of Mt. Widau; colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with some 
anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2550’ (777 m). 
coll, sequence 11,175-11,188; monocaul less than 0.5 m height 
in trailside shrubbery; stems terete, lineate, dark brown; stipules 
green, carinated; leaves opposite, fleshy, adaxial surface dark 
dull green, abaxially glaucescent; fruits ovoid, oligospermous; 
epicarp reddish-orange, marked by 8 longitudinal ridges; 
mesocarp white; calyx persisting, sepals 4, acuminate, light green 
and concolorous with pedicels; seeds compressed, testa brown. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,188 
date: Sept. 14, 1996 
det.: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11189 Moraceae 
Ficus xylosycia Diels 
var. cylindrocarpa (Diels) Corner 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia; colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ 
E; swampy forest with anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 
2425’ (740 m). 
coll, sequence 11,189-11,193; 15 m tree, lactiferous, no buttress, 
highly branched; outer bark grayish-brown, unfissured; wood 
white or pale straw; twigs terete, annulate, surfaces smooth and 
green; stipules very large, convolute, yellowish with reddish tint 
on margins; leaves papyraceous, adaxially very dark green, 
abaxially yellow-green; veins yellow; figs oblongoid; receptacle 
orange, laxly pustulate; seeds numerous, testa brown. 
xylarium coll, made 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2187-N, -2188-0, -2189-P, -2190-Q; 
corresponding to RTWD+TWD, LF, TBK+BR, TW+BR; 4 
duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,189 
date: Sept. 15, 1996 
det.: WT, June 1997 
