Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11814 Lauraceae 
Beilschmiedea cf. schoddei Kosterm. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
E of Haia village; colls, centered on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest 
with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2550’ (775 
m). 
colls sequence 11806-11835; 15 m tree with small buttress; outer 
bark reddish-brown, inner bark orange-brown; wood straw; leaves 
alternate, distichous, herbaceous, adaxial surface medium green, 
abaxially blue-green glaucous; petiole green, adaxially flattened; 
infructescence among the leaves, all axes smooth and green; 
fruits oblongoid, rostrate, epicarp light green; seed single, 
farinaceous. 
wood coll. made. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘o-ro-pu-ma-ray’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11814 
date: March 17, 1997 
det: WT; 7/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11815 Icacinaceae 
Platea excelsa Bl. var. borneensis (Heine) Sleum. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
E of Haia village; colls, centered on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest 
with some anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2550’ (775 
m). 
colls sequence 11806-11835; canopy tree; outer bark thick, 
rough, lichen-obscured, inner bark straw, wood whitish; twigs 
terete, green, brown-lepidote; leaves alternate, subfleshy, slightly 
bullate, adaxial surface very dark green, abaxially brownish-green 
with scales; fruits subovoid, epicarp glossy green; seed single, 
farinaceous. 
wood coll. made. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11815 
date: March 17, 1997 
det: WT; 7/97 
