Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11960 Gesneriaceae 
Cyrtandra sp.(Cyrtandropsis), § Leucocyrtandra 
conspecific with 11282, 12854 
border of Chimbu (Simbu) and Gulf Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, near junction of Wara O and the Pio River; 
510-610 m in foothil forest; colls, centered on 6° 47’S, 145° 02’E. 
understory shrubs; branchlets pale brown, cylindrical, indument of 
reddish-brown hairs at the apex; leaves pseudoalternate, 
distichous, one member of each pair stipuliform; inflorescence 
axillary, congested, pauciflorous; flowers shortly pedicelled, 
completely white; corolla subactinomorphous, inner surface of 
tube pilose near filaments, no coralline flap; 2 stamens, 2 
staminodes seen; dissected flower functionally male, ovary 
rudimentary, style slender, only c. 2 mm long on rehydrated 
flower, stigma elongate, bilobed, linear, hairy. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11960 
date: March 31, 1997 
det: WT, May 1999 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11961 Gesneriaceae 
Aeschynanthus sp. 
border of Chimbu (Simbu) and Gulf Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, near junction of Wara O and the Pio River; 
510-610 m in foothil forest; colls, centered on 6° 47’S, 145° 02’E. 
forest climber; leaves distichous, fleshy, dull green above, 
glaucous beneath; calyx linear, 5, green; corolla bilabiate, entirely 
red; 4 fertile stamens, connivent in 2 pairs, filaments reddish. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11961 
date: March 31, 1997 
det: WT 
