Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 788 Lindsaea group 
Lindsaea microstegia Copel. 
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). 
climbing epiphyte; rhizome adhesive, long-creeping, plagiotropic, 
purple-black; stipes green or black, weakly channelled; rachis 
vasculature dictyostelic; leaves bipinnate, dark green both sides. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11788 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 789 Thelypteridaceae 
cf. Metathelypteris 
does not key on Holttum 
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 fern in understory; rhizome black, wiry, plagiotropic, basal 
scales peltately based, brown, margins laxly provided with short 
hairs; stipe terete, purple-black, stele U-shaped; leaves 
bipinnatisect, herbaceous, dull light green, undersurface with 
coarse septate hairs; costae without grooves; sori round, in two 
ranks one each side of costule; indusia glandular and with 
setiform hairs. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11789 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT, 11/97 
