Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 744 Dennstaedtiaceae 
Dennstaedtia scandens (Bl.) Moore 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village; colls, centered on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; alluvial 
forest with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2425’ 
(740 m). 
climbing fern; rhizome not collected; fronds 3x pinnate, aerial; 
rachis armed with acroscopic prickles, vasculature ca. U-shaped; 
primary pinnae divaricate, opposed; leaves chartaceous, dull 
green; sori in pinnule sinuses, cuplike but also with an outer 
indusium from a reflexed laminar tooth. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 1 1744 
date: March 9, 1997 
det: WT, 11/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 745 Polypodiaceae 
Microsorum papuanum (Baker) Parris 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village; colls, centered on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; alluvial 
forest with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2425’ 
(740 m). 
climber with pendant leaf sprays; rachis blue-green or glaucous, 
scales appressed, black, cancellate, phyllopodia like the rachis in 
coloration and appearance; leaves simple, fleshy, shiny yellow- 
green both sides, venation obscure; sori in 2 rows, one on each 
side of costae, round, orange, raised below, on the upper side the 
soral disk visible as a raised ring. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11745 
date: March 9, 1997 
det: WT 
