Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Carne, M.A. & C. Baker

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

 

Collecting localities:1 

2nd Colonial Sugar Refining Co. (of Australia) Expedition in SE. New Guinea. 1914. Setting out from Buna (May 31) and collecting in the country lying west of Buna down to the northern slopes of the Hydrographers Range and as far north as the Kumusi R.; after 6 weeks return to Buna, setting out again on July 22, and during the 2nd trip collecting behind the Hydrographers Range on the Bariji R., behind Oro Bay and NW in the Koena and Mambare R. district; leaving Buna (Aug. 19), proceeding along the Kokoda Trail to Port Moresby.

 

collections:

106 varieties of sugar-cane. Some varieties may be represented in herbaria.

 

literature:

(1) Cf. Hawaiian Plant. Rec. 55, 1958, p. 213; Cane Growers’ Quart. Bull. 15, 1951, p. 40.