Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 798 Aspleniaceae 
Asplenium nidus L. var. nidus 
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). 
large platform-forming fern; stipes turned upwards, vasculature of 
2 lateral strands uniting into a U-shaped stele; leaves yellow- 
green both sides, undulate, apex acute, base tapered; costa 
purple-black, very prominent above, rounded and less raised 
beneath; sori linear, reaching halfway to the margin. 
coll: W.Takeuchi 11798 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11799 Lauraceae 
Cryptocarya aff. aureosericea Kosterm. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
E of Haia village; colls, centered on coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ 
E; hill forest with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 
2550’ (775 m). 
colls sequence 11766-11802; 10 m pole in subcanopy, 
unbuttressed; outer bark smooth, pale brown, inner bark straw, 
sapwood coneolorous; twigs terete, smooth and green; leaves 
alternate, insect-damaged, dry-textured and brittle, adaxial surface 
dark dull green, abaxially brownish-green and with sericeous 
hairs; petioles yellow, weakly channelled or adaxially flat; 
inflorescence axillary, paniculiform, immature, axes yellow and 
white-puberulent; no open flowers seen; fruit oblongoid, black, 
interior entirely yellow. 
wood coll. made. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11799 
date: March 15, 1997 
det: WT; 7/97 
