Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11726 Athyriaceae 
Diplazium aff. ‘bantamense group’ 
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; common terrestrial in forest 
understories; caudex short, erect, basal scales fuscous, clathrate; 
stipes dull black or greenish, vasculature of 2 lateral strands 
uniting upwards into a U or V shaped stele; rachis and costa with 
indument of white spreading hairs; leaves dark green or 
yellowish-green, fleshy, venation furcate, dilate at the margins to 
pellucid hydathodes; sori doubled, not joined at their ends. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11726 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11727 Moraceae 
Ficus sp. 
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’ (760 
m). 
colls sequence 11708-11740; 15 m tree, terrestrial; sun exposed 
border of old subsistence garden, lactiferous, no buttress; apical 
parts pale-brown sericeous; twigs virgate, grayish-brown, terete; 
stipules acuminate; leaves apically crowded, drooping, alternate, 
papery-dry textured, adaxial surface dark dull green, abaxially 
yellow-green; venation yellow; figs subglobose to obovoid; 
receptacle yellow-green, sparsely pubescent, peduncle hairy. 
xylarium coll. made. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11727 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
