First Records of Phytophthora Cinnamomi in Papua New Guinea.

Abstract

Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands was isolated from soil from three sites from two localities under dead indigenous Nothofagus and at the margin of a dead patch on Mt Giluwe, these being the first records of this fungus in Papua New Guinea. No claim is made that the fungus is the cause of the dead and dying Nothofagus, as the problem needs further investigation.