Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11676 Myrtaceae 
Syzygium megalospermum (Laut. & K. Schum.) 
Merr. & Perry 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village, track to Mt. Widau; colls, centered on 6° 43’ S, 
145° 00’ E; hill forest with anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter 
elev. 2475’ (755 m). 
colls sequence 11670-11683; understory shrub 2m height; 
branchlets orange-brown, terete; leaves fleshy, brittle, bullate, 
dark dull green; petiole concolorous with leaf; inflorescence of 
solitary flowers, axillary or infrafoliar; calyx and pedicel reddish- 
purple, petals concolorous with stamens; filaments whitish-green. 
flowers bottled. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘see’ (name given to all Syzygium). 
coll: W. Takeuchi 1 1676 
date: March 5, 1 997 
det.: WT; 7/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 677 Myrtaceae 
Octamyrtus behrmannii Diels 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village, track to Mt. Widau near the summit; colls, 
centered on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with anthropogenic 
disturbance, altimeter elev. 2525’ (770 m). 
colls sequence 11670-11683; small shrub; branchlets hairy, green 
or pale brown; leaves fleshy, dark dull green, yellow-green 
beneath, abaxially hairy, veins yellowish; flowers axillary or 
infrafoliar; calyx obtuse, green; petals red; filaments pinkish-red; 
styles white, stigma discoid, light green. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘paw’, used for house building. Village 
respondents say there are two species. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11677 
date: March 5, 1997 
det.: WT; 7/97 
