Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11756 Apocynaceae 
Ichnocarpus frutescens (L.) W.T. Aiton 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village; colls, centered on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill 
forest with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2500’ 
(762 m). 
woody climber, lactiferous; stems and branches cylindrical, 
reddish-brown, lenticellate; leaves opposite, distichous, subfleshy, 
dark green, conspicuously areolate; inflorescence with orange- 
brown indument, perianth 5-merous, calyx dentate, corolla white 
or pale green, petals fimbriate, throat light yellow. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 1 1756 
date: March 14, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11757 Dryopteridaceae 
Polystichum aculeatum (L.) Schott, s. lat. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village; colls, centered on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest 
with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2500’ (762 
m). 
ground fern in understory; stipes and rachis green, densely 
paleaceous, furrowed, dictyostelic; leaves herbaceous, dull light 
green. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 1 1757 
date: March 14, 1997 
det: WT 
