The Nature Conservancy Botanical Survey 
Flora of Josephstaal, Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
13095 Monimiaceae 
Steganthera hospitans (Becc.) Kaneh. & Hatus. 
Madang Province, Josephstaal FMA area, foothills 
near Wagedav village, near GPS 292.036 E, 9504.161 
N (Manam topographic sheet), elevation 450 - 500 m, 
riverine flats and foothill forest; successional sequence 
of subsistence gardens and natural growth forest. 
coll, sequence 13078-13100; understory shrub; 
branchlets ant-inhabited with ant cavities at major 
nodes; leaves herbaceous, adaxially dark green, 
abaxially light green; infructescence receptacle 
orange, fruits green and immature. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi & E. Saxon et al. 13095 
date: September 15, 1998 
det.: WT; Dec. 16, 1999 
The Nature Conservancy Botanical Survey 
Flora of Josephstaal, Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
13096 Piperaceae 
Piper caninum Bl. 
Madang Province, Josephstaal FMA area, foothills 
near Wagedav village, near GPS 292.036 E, 9504.161 
N (Manam topographic sheet), elevation 450 - 500 m, 
riverine flats and foothill forest; successional sequence 
of subsistence gardens and natural growth forest. 
coll, sequence 13078-13100; common forest climber. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi & E. Saxon et al. 13096 
date: September 15, 1998 
det.: WT 
