Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11870 Malvaceae 
Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Corr. 
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, colls, centered on 6° 
47’S, 145° 02’E, natural growth foothill forest; elev. 460 m. 
large canopy tree, dbh 43 cm; branchlets robust, cylindrical, 
brown; leaves spiral, coriaceous, dark dull green, underleaf 
lepidote; fruits hemispherical, 5 dehiscence lines, epicarp brown, 
shaggy. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘jew-mah-poo’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11870 
date: March 22, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11871 Loganiaceae 
Neuburgia corynocarpa (A. Gray) Leenh. 
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, colls, centered on 6° 
47’S, 145° 02’E, natural growth foothill forest; elev. 460 m. 
tree, dbh 25 cm; outer bark light brown, inner bark conspicuously 
white; branchlets cylindrical, pithy; leaves opposite, decussate, 
fleshy, medium green above, whitish-green underneath; venation 
pale yellow; infructescence terminal, paniculiform-cincinnoid, all 
rachises blue-green; fruits immature, green, somewhat oblongoid. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11871 
date: March 22, 1997 
det: WT 
