Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11728 Urticaceae 
Cypholophus cf. latifolius (Bl.) Wedd. 
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; epiphytic shrub on wet trunks and 
logs; monocaulous, stems sulcate, hispidulous or strigulose; 
leaves opposite, decussate, fleshy, bullate, dull green or 
yellowish-green; petioles green, channelled; stipules long- 
acuminate, caducous, carinate; infructescence glomerate, fruits 
translucent white. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 1 1728 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 729 Thelypteridaceae 
Sphaerostephanos? sp., or Christella 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; common ground fern in forest 
understory; stipes purple-black or dull brown, broadly channelled, 
vasculature of 2 lateral strands, indument of reddish-brown scales 
and stiff hairs; frond pinnate, basal pinnae reduced becoming 
auriculiform on the stipe; rachis purple, stele U-shaped, costae 
grooved on upper side; leaves dry-herbaceous, dull green, 
underleaf aglandular; venation pinnate from costulae, nerves 
confluent; sori in 2 rows, exindusiate, sporangia black, apparently 
glabrous. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11729 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
