Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11250 Burseraceae 
Canarium vitiense A. Gray 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, Papua side; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, ridge E of Haia; colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; natural-growth hill forest at 
altimeter elev. 2425’-2700’ (640-823 m). 
coll, sequence 11,248-11,253; subcanopy tree; twigs terete, light 
brown, lenticellate; leaves pinnate, dry-textured, adaxially very 
dark green, abaxially yellow-green; all axes (petioles-rachis) 
yellow-green; infructescence hanging, axes woody; fruits 
drupaceous, broadly 3-angled, epicarp dull purple-black. 
xylarium coll. made. 
the dry sap is ignitable and used as a kind of candle by local 
villagers. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2308-T, -2309-U, 0231 0-V, -2904-R; 
corresponding to TW, TBK, TWD, LF+BR; 4 duplicates distributed 
through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,250 
date: Sept. 20, 1996 
det.: WT, June 1997 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11251 Lauraceae 
Endiandra of. papuana Lauterb. 
‘papuana-glauca group’ 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, Papua side; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, ridge E of Haia; colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; natural-growth hill forest at 
altimeter elev. 2425-2700’ (640-823 m). 
coll, sequence 11,248-11,253; subarborescent, 5 m height; twigs 
terete, hairs orange-brown; leaves thick, dry-textured, adaxially 
medium shiny green, abaxially glaucous; inflorescence axes 
twiglike in apperance; flowers (in bud) clavate, green; perianth 
monochlamydeous, yellow at anthesis, segments 6 (3+3), 
sepaloid. 
flowers bottled; xylarium coll. made. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2909-W, -291 0-X, -291 1-Y, -291 2-Z, - 
291 3-A; corresponding to TW+inflorescence, TBK+BR, RTWD, 
RTBK+RT, LF+BR+RTWD; 6 duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,251 
date: Sept. 20, 1996 
det.: WT, 7/97 
