Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 220 Melastomataceae 
Dissochaeta angiensis Ohwi 
conspecific with coli. 1 1200 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Papua side; 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 11,214-11,230; woody climber in riverbank 
canopy; stems hanging; same characteristics as for coll. 1 1 ,200. 
xylarium coll, separate. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2265-W, -2266-X, -2267-Y; 
corresponding to RT, LF+TW+FR, SBK+stem; 3 duplicates 
distributed through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,220 
date: Sept. 18, 1996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11221 Rubiaceae 
Mycetia javanica (Bl.) Reinw. ex Korth. 
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. 2425-2550’ (740-777 
m). 
coll, sequence 11,214-11,230; monocaul subshrubs, 0.5 m 
height; stems cylindrical, surfaces dark green, hairs light brown 
and spreading; stipules foliose, green, curled; leaves 
chartaceous, bullate, adaxially dark dull green, abaxially pale 
green to glaucescent; leaf indumentum white, patent; 
infructescence terminal, congested, all axes dark green, hairs 
white; fruits polyspermous, epicarp shiny yellow-green; calyx pale 
green; ovary bilocular, placentation axillary; corolla 5-merous, 
limb stellate and spreading, dull yellow. 
flowers bottled. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,221 
date: Sept. 18, 1996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
