Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 690 Rhamnaceae 
Rhamnus nipalensis (Wallich) Lawson ex Hook. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village, track to Mt. Widau near the top; colls, centered 
on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with anthropogenic 
disturbance, altimeter elev. 2525’ (770 m). 
colls sequence 11684—11707; liane on sun-exposed bank, 
branchlets terete, reddish-brown, lenticellate; leaves herbaceous, 
shiny green; petiole furrowed; flowers monochlamydeous, 
perianth sepaloid, 5-merous, yellow-green, stamens 
alternipetalous; fruits globose, juicy, purple when ripe; seeds 3, 
oblongish, testa smooth. 
respondents uncertain of tokples name, 
flowers bottled. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11690 
date: March 6, 1997 
det.: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 691 Euphorbiaceae 
Breynia cernua (Poir.) Muell.-Arg. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village, track to Mt. Widau near the top, colls, centered 
on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with anthropogenic disturbance, 
altimeter elev. 2525’ (770 m). 
colls sequence 11684-11707; shrub growing by landslip; twigs 
and stems shiny green; leaves distichous, herbaceous, adaxially 
dark dull green, abaxially glaucous, foliage with mousey smell, 
calyx 5, obtuse, not recurved; fruits globose, dull red, epicarp 
smooth. 
respondents uncertain of tokples name. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11691 
date: March 6, 1997 
det.: WT 
