Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 720 Myrsinaceae 
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. 2500’ (762 
m). 
colls sequence 11708-11740; tall understory shrub; branchlets 
cylindrical, smooth, swollen at base; leaves spiral, fleshy, medium 
green, punctulate; inflorescence racemose; sepals persisting, 5, 
green with black glandular spots; fruits juicy, shiny black, 
compressed between the poles, monospermous. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11720 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11721 Ericaceae 
Dimorphanthera brevipes Schltr. 
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. 2450’ (745 
m). 
colls sequence 11708-11740; woody climber on Lithocarpus 
11718; stems robust, grayish-brown; leaves spiral, firm, 
induplicate, rugose, adaxial surface very dark green, abaxially 
yellow-green; petioles brown, adaxially flattened; inflorescence 
ramiflorous, racemes highly condensed; bracts pale green, 
pedicels concolorous or pink; calyx whitish-green; corolla white, 
sulcate; anthercells basally appendaged, processes of major 
stamens adherent and longer than anthercells; style white; disk 
glabrous. 
flowers bottled. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11721 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: P. Stevens; Dec. 3, 1998 
