Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11966 Meliaceae 
Ghisocheton lasiocarpus (Miq.) Valeton 
entity ‘weinlandii’ 
border of Chimbu (Simbu) and Gulf Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, near junction of Wara O and the Pio River; 
elev. 460 m in alluvial forest; colls, centered on 6° 47’S, 145° 
02’E. 
canopy tree; branchlets ant-inhabited; leaves spiral, rachises 
brown, ungrooved; petiole base swollen, sulcate, petiolules 
swollen; leaflets herbaceous, bullate, dark green, margins 
undulate; fruits subglobose, dull red, puberulent, 4 dehiscence 
lines; arillode orange, not completely covering seed; testa 
smooth, brown, hilum area white. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11966 
date: April 1,1997 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 967 Amaranthaceae 
Celosia argentea L. 
border of Chimbu (Simbu) and Gulf Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, near junction of Wara O and the Pio River; 
elev. 460 m in alluvial forest; colls, centered on 6° 47’S, 145° 02’E. 
weedy shrub in dry streambed; stems sulcate, greenish-red; 
leaves spiral, herbaceous, adaxially dark dull green, abaxially 
purple; inflorescence erect, terminal, bracts purple. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11967 
date: April 1 , 1 997 
det: WT 
