Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 792 Polypodiaceae 
Selliguea albidosquamata (Bl.) Parris 
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). 
epiphyte; rhizome medium-creeping, moderately thick, paleae 
dense, orange-brown; stipe usually purple-black, dorsally 
flattened, vasculature dictyostelic; leaves pinnate, firm, undulate, 
dark dull green above, pale green beneath, margins hyaline; 
pinnae stipitate, not articulate; venation pinnate, black, not 
reaching the margin; sori in 2 ranks each pinna, large, round, 
exindusiate, soral disk raised above and yellowish. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11792 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11793 Thelypteridaceae 
Sphaerostephanos heterocarpus (Bl.) Holttum 
keys to this sp. 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; caudex erect, radial, brown-paleaceous; 
stipe purple-black, weakly channelled, up to ca. 6 pairs of auricles, 
vasculature of 2 lateral bundles; leaves bipinnatisect, ascending, 
herbaceous, dark dull green, upper surface strigose and with 
yellow glands between veins, underside with numerous glands 
and coarse spreading hairs; terminal pinna present; basal pinnae 
slightly reduced and narrowed at their base, abrupt transition to 
the reduced segments on the stipe; one vein pair anastomose 
before the sinus; rachis weakly grooved, hairy, atropurpureous; 
indusia hippocrepiform, indument of hairs and globose glands, 
sporangia with similar glands. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11793 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT, 11/97 
