Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11730 Arecaceae 
Areca 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; 4m tall understory palm; crown 
shaft present, 35 cm long; leaves plicate, V-shaped at the apex, 
margins coarsely toothed or tapering; leaf rachis green, dorsally 
ridged, brown-squamose underneath; infructescence of several 
racemes below the shaft; calyculus green, fruits yellow-orange. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘who’ 
coll: W.Takeuchi 11730 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11731 Leeaceae 
Leea coryphantha Laut. 
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; stems reddish- 
brown, pithy, surfaces tuberculate; leaves spiral, once-pinnate, 
rachis dull pale green, tuberculate, channelled; blades oblong- 
elliptic, papyraceous, bullate, dull green; venation yellowish, 
scalariform; inflorescence axillary, glomerate; calyx toothed; 
corolla mostly 5-merous, sometimes 4-merous, petals reflexed, 
dull yellow; stamens reddish, 5, connivent; fruits globose, dull 
orange-brown, oligospermous, mesocarp yellow, dry-textured. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11731 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
