Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11252 Rubiaceae 
Wendlandia paniculata (Roxb.) DC. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, Papua side; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, ridge E of Haia; colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest at altimeter elev. 
2425-2700’ (640-823 m). 
coll, sequence 11,248-11,253; 7 m tree in regrowth; twigs 
compressed, orange-brown; leaves coriaceous, bullate, adaxially 
very dark green, abaxially yellow-green; inflorescence axes 
green, hairs spreading; 
flowers fragrant; calyx green; corolla sympetalous, white, limb 
capitate in bud; petals 5, reflexing at anthesis; stamens alternate 
the petals; style and stigma white, stigma 2-fid. 
xylarium coll. made. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2934-Y, -2935-Z, -2936-A, -2937-C, - 
2938-F; corresponding to TBK+TW, RT+RTWD, 
inflorescence+stem, LF+BR, TWD; 7 duplicates distributed 
through NCI. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,252 
date: Sept. 20, 1996 
det.: WT, June 1997 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11253 Santalaceae 
Scleropyrum aurantiacum (Laut. & K. Sch.) Pilg. 
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; understory shrub; twigs terete, 
fractiflex, surfaces smooth: shiny green or pale brown; leaves 
distichous, pliant, adaxially very dark green, abaxially yellow- 
green; inflorescence axillary, spicate, axes light green; flowers in 
bud only, entirely pale yellow-green with white hairs; single fruit 
seen: subglobose, epicarp pinkish. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,253 
date: Sept. 20, 1996 
det.: WT, 8/97 
