Flora of Crater ML, Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11794 Athyriaceae 
Diplazium schlechteri Hieron. 
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 short, erect, radial, basal 
scales fuscous, acuminate; stipes black, furrowed, prickly, 
vasculature U-shaped; leaves tripinnatifid, firm, very dark green; 
venation several times furcate, free to the margin; sori linear, 
indusiate, following veins. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 1 1794 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11795 Monimiaceae 
Steganthera hospitans (Becc.) Kanehira & Hatusima 
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). 
understory shrub; branchlets smooth, green, nodes swollen and 
ant-inhabited; leaves opposite, papery, dull green; inflorescence 
axillary, racemiform, rachises pale green; flowers dull yellow, 
discoid. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11795 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT 
