Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11732 Meliaceae 
Dysoxylum cf. kaniense Harms 
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; subarborescent, 4m tall in 
understory; branchlets smooth, apical bud elongate; leaves 
imparipinnate, alternate, petiole base swollen; blades fleshy, dull 
green both sides; fruits axillary or infrafoliar, solitary or 2 together, 
peduncle woody, valves 4, dull orange; seeds several, arillode 
orange. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11732 
date: March 8, 1 997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11733 Meliaceae 
Dysoxylum parasiticum (Osb.) Kosterm. 
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 1 1 708-1 1 740; limby 1 5m tree at edge of old 
garden; periderm pale brown, lenticellate; branchlets angulate, 
fistulose, inhabited by black ants; apical buds linear; leaves spiral, 
pinnate, all axes green and angled; petiole base swollen; leaflets 
opposed, subfleshy, dull green; infructescence from old wood. 
carpologlcal coll. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11733 
date: March 8, 1997 
det: WT 
