Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11714 Oleandraceae 
Oleandra cuspidata Baker 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
E of Haia village; colls, centered on 6° 43' S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest 
with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2525’ (770 
m). 
colls sequence 11708-11740; vinelike fern with ropey stems; 
rhizome/rachis terete, vasculature dictyostelic, scales with a black 
appressed base and spreading reddish-brown acumen; 
phyllopodia acroscopic, blackish; leaves herbaceous, light green 
or yellow-green. 
Pawaian tokples name = ’hein-yo’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 1 1714 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11715 Euphorbiaceae/Stilaginaceae 
Antidesma aff. rhynchophyllum K. Schum. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
E of Haia village; colls, centered on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest 
with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2550’ (777 
m). 
colls sequence 11708-11740; understory shrub, 4-5 m height; 
outer bark pale brown, somewhat smooth; twigs slender, 
distichous, terete, pale; leaves distichous in same plane as twigs, 
papery and pliant, sub-bullate, adaxial surface dark green, 
abaxially medium green; infructescence axillary, peduncle 
concolorous with the twigs, rachis green; fruits cream or pink, 
black when mature, subobovoid; stigmatic remnant centric. 
xylarium coll. made. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11715 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
