Flora of Josephstaal, Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
13860 Commelinaceae 
Aneilema sp., aff. ?humile Warburg 
Madang Province, Josephstaal FMA area, coll.s 
around expedition Camp 2 at the Guam River; 
centered on GPS 280100 E, 9497596 N, elevation ca. 
50 m; swampy Metroxylon alluvial forest and lower 
slopes of foothill forest. 
coll, sequence 13849-13876; terrestrial herb with 
trailing stems; leaves papery, concolorously opaque 
green both surfaces; inflorescence axes with a mixed 
indument of uncinate hairs and longer flattened hairs, 
perianth white or weakly brunneous, filaments white. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi, J. Wiakabu, M. Gorrez, A. Towati 13860 
date: Aug. 10, 1999 
det.: WT; Jan. 5, 2000 
Flora of Josephstaal, Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
13861 Asteraceae 
Eclipta prostrata (L.) L. 
Madang Province, Josephstaal FMA area, coll.s 
around expedition Camp 2 at the Guam River; 
centered on GPS 280100 E, 9497596 N, elevation ca. 
50 m; swampy Metroxylon alluvial forest and lower 
slopes of foothill forest. 
coll, sequence 13849-13876; small terrestrial herb; all 
vegetative parts concolorously green, herbage 
strigulose or hispidulous; leaves herbaceous, opaque 
both surfaces; achenes tuberculate. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi, J. Wiakabu, M. Gorrez, A. Towati 13861 
date: Aug. 10, 1999 
det.: WT; Nov. 27, 1999 
