Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11234 Annonaceae 
Goniothalamus aruensis Scheff. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, Papua side; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, descending slopes between Mt. Widau and 
Wara oo (first river to the E of Widau); colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with some 
anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2100-2550’ (640-777 
m). 
coll, sequence 11,231-11,247; 5 m pole in understory; twigs 
terete, brown; leaves coriaceous, sub-bullate, adaxially very dark 
green, abaxially medium green; petioles shiny green, flattened 
above; infructescence cauline near ground level; receptacle pink, 
not expanded, bearing about 9 individual carpels; fruits fleshy, 
stipitate, rostrate; pericarp rugose, translucent red and somewhat 
ceraceous in appearance; epicarp marked by a longitudinal 
groove; seed single, endosperm ruminate. 
carpological and xylarium colls, separate. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2281-P, -2282-Q, -2283-R; 
corresponding to LF+TW, RT+RTWD+SWD, SBK+BR; 2 
duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,234 
date: Sept. 19, 1996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11236 Rubiaceae 
Timonius grandifolius Valeton 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, Papua side; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, descending slopes between Mt. Widau and 
Wara oo (first river to the E of Widau); colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with some 
anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2100-2550’ (640-777 
m). 
coll, sequence 11,231-11,247; understory subarborescent, 4 m 
height; twigs subterete, light brown; stipules conspicuous, keeled, 
light green; leaves papyraceous, adaxially dark green, abaxially 
yellow-green; petioles light green, flattened above; bracts foliose, 
light green; calyx accrescent, usually red (especially on the fruit); 
corolla sympetalous, tube long and whitish-green; lobes 5, 
spreading or decurved; fruits red, polyspermous; summit with an 
enlarged calyx, the sepals reflexing and appressed to the 
epicarp. 
flowers, fruits, and stipules bottled; xylarium coll. made. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2287-V, -2288-W, -2289-X, -2290-Y, 
-2291 -Z; corresponding to RT, TW+inflorescence, SWD, LF+BR, 
SBK+RTWD+SWD; 4 duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,236 
date: Sept. 19, 1996 
det.: WT, June 1997 
