Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11786 Araceae 
Amorphophallus galbra F.M. Bailey 
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. 2550’ 
(777 m). 
ground herb in understory; spike and leaf from separate plants; 
stems variegated with green and brown mottling; leaves 
bipinnatisect, herbaceous, dull green; fruits oblongoid, shiny 
green, immature. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11786 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11787 Zingiberaceae 
Alpinia werneri Vaieton, § Pycnanthus 
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. 2550’ (777 
m). 
ground herb in understory; leaves alternate, herbaceous, shiny 
green; ligule large, pubescent; sheaths green or reddish; midrib 
furrowed above, rounded and prominent below, pink; panicle from 
apical axil, rachises red; flowers mostly in sessile pseudowhorls, 
perianth pink, indument of white spreading hairs; fruits 
subglobose, black, calyx persisting. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11787 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT, 1/98 
