Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11860 indet. 
?llex 
border of Chimbu (Simbu) and Gulf Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, E of Haia village near Wara O, slopes of 
descending buttress ridge to the Pio River, natural growth foothill 
forest; elev. 460 m. 
canopy tree, dbh 23 cm; outer bark light brown, tuberculate, slash 
red, no exudate; branchlets terete, pale brown; leaves alternate, 
spiral, fleshy, induplicate, shiny green; racemes axillary or below 
the leaves, epedunculate; flowers in bud only, obtuse, entirely 
white; calyx dentate, corolla 4 free petals, stamens 4, 
alternipetalous, erect, free, glabrous, anthers basifixed; no disk 
present; ovary superior, papillate, sulcate, umbonate; styles 4, 
free, short. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘paw-po’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11860 
date: March 22, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11861 Aspleniaceae 
Asplenium scandens J. Smith ex Mett. 
border of Chimbu (Simbu) and Gulf Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, E of Haia village near Wara O, slopes of 
descending buttress ridge to the Pio River, natural growth foothill 
forest; elev. 460 m. 
epiphyte; rhizome climbing, adhesive, black, dorsiventral, 
squamules dark brown; stipes green or black, flattened above; 
rachis alate; leaves decompound, herbaceous, dull green. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11861 
date: March 22, 1997 
det: WT 
