Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11854 Solanaceae 
Solanum dendropilosum Symon 
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). 
colls sequence 11836-11858; sterile sightings only; adhesive 
climber ascending trunks; stems terete, green, scales orange- 
brown; leaves closely appressed to substrate, herbaceous, 
reduced auriculiform member present; major blades adaxially 
dark dull green, abaxially very pale green; hairs stellate, orange- 
brown. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11,854 
date: March 18, 1997 
det.: D.E. Symon 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11855 Myrsinaceae 
Maesa haplobotrys F.v.M. 
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. 2500’ (762 
m). 
sequence 11836-11858; shrub; twigs fistulose, lenticellate, terete; 
leaves spiral, herbaceous, dull green; inflorescence racemose, 
axillary, usually several together, laxly lepidote; perianth tubular, 
off-white, pentamerous, ovary yellow and glabrous; fruit globose or 
ovoid, dull green, subtended by 2 opposing bracteoles. 
flowers bottled. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11855 
date: March 18, 1997 
det: WT 
