Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11226 Gesneriaceae 
Dichrotrichum sp. 
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; hiil forest with some 
anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2425-2550’ (740-777 
m). 
coll, sequence 11,214-11,230; adhesive climber on tree trunks; 
stems terete, pale brown with white spreading hairs; leaves 
herbaceous, adaxially dark dull green, abaxially medium green; 
veins purplish; petioles purple, slightly flattened on upper side; 
peduncle reddish-brown; calyx and corolla red. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,226 
date: Sept. 18, 1996 
det.: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 227 Verbenaceae 
Clerodendrum brassii Beer& H.J. Lam 
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; understory shrub; stems 
quadrangular, fistulose, dull purple; leaves papyraceous, bullate, 
adaxially very dark dull green, abaxially yellow-green; veins 
purple; petioles narrowly channelled above, concolorous with 
stem, not swollen at either end; bracts conspicuous, red; entire 
inflorescence red. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,227 
date: Sept. 18, 1996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
