Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11192 Euphorbiaceae 
cf. Phyllanthus 
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; 4 m subarborescent on 
streambanks of Wara Sename; wood stramineous, dense; twigs 
grayish-brown, lenticellate; leaves herbaceous, adaxial surface 
shining medium green, abaxially pale green to glaucescent; 
flowers unisexual; female: perianth caliciform, free, segments 5, 
white with a weak reddist cast; stigma 3, each 2-fid at the summit, 
persisting in fruit; fruits globose or ovoid, epicarp red. 
xylarium coll, separate. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2198-Y, -2199-Z, -2200-A; 
corresponding to LF+BR, TBK+TWD, TW+inflorescence+RTWD; 
6 duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,192 
date: Sept. 15, 1996 
det.: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11193 Rubiaceae 
Myrmecodia platytyrea Becc. subsp. platytyrea 
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; anthouse epiphyte, common 
species in regrowth; tuber exterior pale dull brown, marked by 
longitudinal ridges armed with black spines, ant entrance holes 
arrayed in lines (not dispersed), tuber flesh pinkish when 
sectioned; 2-3 stems emerging from top of anthouse; each stem 
unbranched, robust, covered with clypeoli deployed in 4 
longitudinal files, the clypeoli acroscopically 2-fid, scutelliform, 
concolorous with the tuber, spinose on margins; the spines 
flexible, brown; leaves fleshy, brittle, adaxial surface shining 
medium green, abaxially yellow-green; costae orange-red and 
concolorous with petioles; petiole succulent, adnate to the 
clypeoli. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,193 
date: Sept. 15, 1996 
det.: WT, 8/97 
