Results of the Archbold expeditions Papuan nothofagus

Abstract

apparently failed to collect Nothofagus, unless their material was not recognized and remains concealed among incertae sedis of some other family.!There is another reason for this neglect in collecting Nothofagus, and that is that the @ flowering is very inconspicuous, and that the more showy and abundant ¢ flowers are only present during a remarkably short "flush" period, as in Fagus.Besides the arboreal habit the flowering itself makes Nothofagus unattractive to the field botanist.From these considerations it is quite understandable that the first collection, as far as known, was by Dr. A. A. Pulle (nestor of Dutch systematists and my revered teacher) under favourable circumstances, from a stunted shrub in anthesis on the crest of Mt.Hellwig, in 1913.Over twenty years elapsed before the genus was collected again, this time by C. E. Carr in 1935C.E. Carr in -1936. .After that collections came in independently very rapidly, by Clemens in 1937, Brass and Brass & Versteegh in 1938-1939, Kanehira & Hatusima in 1940, and Eyma in the same year.After the war several more new collections were made by A. J.