Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Borneo
by Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson
ISBN: 978-1-908787-03-3
Pages: 101
Images: 144
Page size: 250 x 180 mm
Cover: softcover
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 coverNepenthes 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 discoveredNepenthes 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.