Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11872 Icacinaceae 
Gomphandra montana (Schellenb.) Sleumer 
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 20 cm; branchlets greenish-brown, indument of 
appressed hairs; leaves alternate, distichous, coriaceous, bullate, 
dark green, underleaf laxly strigose on costae; fruits axillary or 
below the leaves, solitary, oblongoid, green, monospermous, 
crowned by stigmatic remnant in a radiate pattern. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘swahm-me’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 1 1872 
date: March 22, 1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11873 Meliaceae 
Aglaia sp. 
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 33 cm, clear exudate from cut surfaces; leaves conferted 
at ends of branches, pinnate, axes dull orange-brown; leaf base 
swollen; leaflets fleshy but fracturing easily, yellow-green both 
sides; infructescence axillary, entirely brown, bracteate, calyx 
persistent. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘oh-rai’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11873 
date: March 22, 1997 
det: WT 
