Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 828 Anacardiaceae 
Semecarpus schlechteri Lauterb. 
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. 
2500’ (760 m). 
colls sequence 11806-11835; 10 m treelet; outer bark brown, 
weakly and longitudinally fissured, inner bark exuding black sap, 
wood white; twigs cylindrical, pale brown, woody to the apex; 
leaves spiral, papery to somewhat firm, sub-bullate, adaxial 
surface dull green, abaxiaily blue-green glaucous; petioles brown, 
proximally swollen; infructescence terminal, pendant, paniculate, 
axes brown and woody; cupule shiny green; fruit compressed, 
epicarp green with brown pustulate lenticels. 
wood coll. made. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘ha-o’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11828 
date: March 17, 1997 
det: WT; 6/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11829 Meliaceae 
Dysoxylum cf. sparsiflorum Mabb. 
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’ (777 
m). 
sequence 11806-11835; understory shrub; branchlets terete, 
orange-brown; leaves herbaceous, dark green; infructescence 
pendant, peduncle long, orange-brown and twiglike; fruits shiny 
yellow-red 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11829 
date: March 17, 1997 
det: WT 
