SempleNM

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Semple, Noel Merson

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

Born: 1922, Preston, Vict., Australia.

career:

Was educated at Melbourne University (B.S.); biochemist, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne. With a friend, L.T. Rayner, he spent a 6-week holiday in NE. New Guinea (July-Sept. 1953).

Collecting localities:

1953. Mand. Terr. of New Guinea: Mt Wilhelm, 67 miles SW from Madang, in open places above timberline, 11.000-15.000 ft (Aug. 5-8); Mt Gil(l)uwe (Aug. 23).

collections:

Herb. Melbourne [MEL]: fragmentary specimens, no dupl.; 38 from Mt Wilhelm, 8 different ones from Mt Gil(l)uwe, coll. by Semple & Rayner. The collection was made as a personal favour to Mr J.H. Willis of the National Herbarium of Victoria.

	Career Collecting localities Collections
	Semple, Noel Merson
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	Born: 1922, Preston, Vict., Australia.
	career: Was educated at Melbourne University (B.S.); biochemist, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne. With a friend, L.T. Rayner, he spent a 6-week holiday in NE. New Guinea (July-Sept. 1953).
	Collecting localities: 1953. Mand. Terr. of New Guinea: Mt Wilhelm, 67 miles SW from Madang, in open places above timberline, 11.000-15.000 ft (Aug. 5-8); Mt Gil(l)uwe (Aug. 23).
	collections: Herb. Melbourne [MEL]: fragmentary specimens, no dupl.; 38 from Mt Wilhelm, 8 different ones from Mt Gil(l)uwe, coll. by Semple & Rayner. The collection was made as a personal favour to Mr J.H. Willis of the National Herbarium of Victoria.