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Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Borneo

by Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson
ISBN: 978-1-908787-03-3
Pages: 98
Images: 122
Page Size: 180 x 250 mm
Cover: Soft

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Borneo is a lavishly illustrated overview of the thirty nine species of Bornean pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Several species featured in this work have been discovered extremely recently, and the images included in this work are among the first to be published.

This visually beautiful guide book consists of a short introduction to Nepenthes, followed by an overview of the species known from Borneo (complete with full page map). Each species is then profiled over two pages with the use of three images (most of which have never been published before) and a brief, but detailed text summary written in clear, easy-to-understand English. Concluding sections cover Nepenthes hybrids, conservation of Bornean pitcher plants, Bibliography, Index and About the Authors.

The species documented in this work are:

N. albomarginata
N. ampullaria
N. appendiculata
N. baramensis
N. bicalcarata
N. boschiana
N. burbidgeae
N. campanulata
N. chaniana
N. clipeata
N. edwardsiana
N. ephippiata
N. epiphytica
N. faizaliana
N. fusca
N. glandulifera
N. gracilis
N. hirsuta
N. hispida
N. hurrelliana
N. lowii
N. macrophylla
N. macrovulgaris
N. mapuluensis
N. mirabilis
N. mollis
N. muluensis
N. murudensis
N. northiana
N. pilosa
N. platychila
N. rafflesiana
N. rajah
N. reinwardtiana
N. stenophylla
N. tentaculata
N. veitchii
N. villosa
N. vogelii

Highlights include:

1. coverage and unique images of the recently discovered Nepenthes baramensis, N. appendiculata andN. epiphytica.

2. Unique, never-before published images of many rare and little-known Nepenthes, including N. glandulifera, N. hurrelliana, N. mapuluensis, N. platychila and N. vogelii.

and much, much more...

Signed copies bear the signature of Stewart McPherson handwritten in silver ink on the inside cover.
 

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