A complete guide to native orchids of Australia.

Jones, David L.

ISBN 10: 1760796271 / ISBN 13: 9781760796273

Edité par Sydney: New Holland Publishers, (2024, 2024

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third edition),Quarto, dustwrapper,800 pp.,colour photographs, text illustrations. This book, the magnum opus of Australian orchid expert David L.Jones, is a new and much improved edition of what is already the best and most authoritative book on the subject. The First Edition, published in 1993, was spectacular and comprehensive, describing more than 1,300 species and subspecies. Line drawings helped the reader to easily determine the genus of each orchid observed. Australia is the world centre of orchid biodiversity, and now that our understanding of the subject has developed over the past quarter of a century, this new Third Edition contains many more species and photos, and much more detailed text than previous editions. It covers more than 100 additional orchid species, including some which have not yet officially been described. References are now included in the text, distribution maps are included, and there is a more complete and comprehensive introduction.There are better and clearer layouts for species entries, with greater emphasis placed on conservation aspects, which is important because so many of our orchids are now under threat from all sorts of factors. In short this is a comprehensive guide that will contain correct identification of the orchids (a failure in many other books). It will arguably be the best and most complete work on orchids to be published anywhere in the world.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A complete guide to native orchids of Australia.
• Éditeur: Sydney: New Holland Publishers, (2024
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1760796271
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781760796273
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

The most comprehensive book ever published on the subject, this revised third edition of A Complete Guide to Native Orchids of Australia is a legacy resulting from a lifetime’s work by David L. Jones and is an important

contribution to Australia’s recorded flora. The text provides details of when and where the taxa were named, etymology of the scientific names used, descriptions, distributions, habitats and notes for the 1,698 taxa of Australian native orchids, more than twice the number covered in the original edition of the book in 1988 and 394 more species than detailed in the second edition published in 2006. Of these, about 1,459 taxa are terrestrials, 239 epiphytes or lithophytes and six or seven exotic taxa have become naturalised.

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David L. Jones has had an interest in flora, and particularly orchids, for more than half a century. In 2001 he was presented with the Australian Orchid Foundation's prestigious ' Award of Honor' in recognition of his enormous contribution to the study of orchids in Australia and internationally.