Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11294 Gesneriaceae 
Cyrtandra sp., § Centrosiphon 
conspecific with 11275, 12914 
keys to section on available characters using Burtt’s 
unpublished key 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, Papua side; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, between Wara Sera and the Wara o 
midcamp; colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 04’ E; 
natural growth hill forest at altimeter elev. 1900-2800’ (580-854 
m). 
coll, sequence 1 1 ,289-1 1 ,296; miniature monocauls less than 0.5 
m height; stems juicy, surfaces brownish-green; leaves 
conspicuously bullate, adaxial surface very dark grayish-green, 
abaxially brownish-green; one leaf of each pair stipuliform, 
petioles concolorous with stems; pedicels translucent white; calyx 
spathaceous, red, margin oblique; corolla type markedly bilabiate, 
4 + 1, limb shining red, 2 swollen lingulate and retorse flaps at 
sinus between filaments; 2 arcuate stamens, 3 staminodes near 
throat; ovary elongate, passing insensibly to the style, patent 
hairs on style and upper part of ovary; stigma conspicuously 
bilobed, lobes papillate and rounded; fruit not seen. 
flowers bottled. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,294 
date: Sept. 29, 1996 
det.: WT, May 1999 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11295 Zingiberaceae 
Curcuma australasica Hook. f. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, Papua side; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, between Wara Sera and the Wara o 
midcamp; colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 04’ E; 
natural growth hill forest at altimeter elev. 1900-2800’ (580-854 
m). 
coll, sequence 11,289-11,296; terrestrial understory herb; leaves 
papyraceous, adaxial surface very dark green, abaxially light 
green; petioles light green, channelled on upper side; bracts 
white (‘A’ duplicates with reddish-purple bracts); flowers yellow. 
tokples name = ‘sewa;’ said as having no use. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,295 
each dupl. from different individuals in same colony 
date: Sept. 29, 1996 
det.: WT 
