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Dear Valued Customers,
Firstly, please may I wish you all a very Happy Easter.
I am writing with the exciting news that Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus is finally complete. We are airfreighting 300 copies of each volume to the UK from the printers, and we will ship out all pre-orders from the 1st week of May.
If you have placed an order and your postal address has changed in the intervening time, please would you kindly notify the Redfern Sales team of your new details ( sales@redfernnaturalhistory.com) .
May I thank all pre-order customers for waiting so patiently for this work. It has been a mammoth project for the Redfern team to undertake, and is without a doubt the most comprehensive and beautiful study of carnivorous plants which we, as a company, have published to date. I am very confident that you will agree that the final product is well worth the wait!
The three volumes of Magnum Opus are (in total) 1355 pages long, and contain over 2,500 images. An overview is below, and I have attached sample pages from each volume to this email for you to see, along with the dust jackets.
These very special books can be ordered at
www.redfernnaturalhistory.com Currently, about 200 of the 500 unique signed and numbered copies have been sold.
Well, may I sincerely thank you for your patronage.
Yours sincerely
Stewart McPherson
Redfern Natural History Productions
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Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus Volumes 1., 2. and 3
Australia is home to over one third of all carnivorous plant species currently recognised worldwide. Moreover, the different species found on this continent also represent many of the most diverse carnivorous plant forms known, including some of the largest, most spectacular and unusual representatives of the major carnivorous plant groups. Over the past five decades, renowned botanist Allen Lowrie has travelled across Australia in order to observe, study and photograph all the carnivorous plant species of the continent. This benchmark study represents his accumulated life’s work to date, and offers a definitive and unparalleled examination of all carnivorous plants species currently known from Australia. Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus features in-depth, fully illustrated descriptions of all taxa, and introduces for the first time more than 20 new species, 4 new hybrids, and a number of new combinations and new records for Australia. This exhaustive work also includes a wealth of new information and location data, new observations, unique photographs and species distribution maps.
The three volumes of this work are divided as follows:
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Volume 1:
Acknowledgements
Preface
Types of Carnivorous Plants
Habitats of Carnivorous Plants in Australia
Substrate – an important determinant in Drosera growth habits
The Groups of Australian Drosera
• Tuberous Drosera 30
• Pygmy Drosera 44
• Natural Pygmy Drosera Hybrids 52
• Man-made Pygmy Drosera Hybrids 56
• Perennial Tropical Drosera 60
• Miscellaneous Drosera 78
• Drosera indica Complex 78
Setocoris – the Sundew Bugs 80
Keys to the Carnivorous Plants of Australia 88
The Species:
• Introduction to the Species Descriptions
• Aldrovanda
• Byblis
• Cephalotus
• Drosera species A to F; aberrans, adelae, allantostigma, andersoniana, androsacea, aquatica, arcturi, aurantiaca, auriculata, australis, × badgerupii, × badgingarra, banksii, barbigera, barrettorum, basifolia, bicolor, binata, bindoon, brevicornis, broomensis, browniana, bulbigena, bulbosa, burmannii, caduca, callistos, calycina, × carbarup, citrina, closterostigma, coalara, collina, coomallo, cucullata, darwinensis, depauperata, derbyensis, dichrosepala, dilatatopetiolaris, drummondii, echinoblastus, eneabba, enodes, eremaea, erythrogyne, erythrorhiza, esperensis, falconeri, fimbriata, finlaysoniana, fragrans, fulva
Volume 2:
The Species (continued from Volume 1):
• Drosera species F to Z; geniculata, gibsonii, gigantea, glabriscapa, glanduligera, gracilis, graniticola, grievei, hamiltonii, hartmeyerorum, helodes, heterophylla, hirsuta, hookeri, huegelii, humilis, hyperostigma, indumenta, intricata, kenneallyi, lanata, lasiantha, × legrandii, leioblastus, leucoblasta, leucostigma, lowriei, lunata, macrantha, macrophylla, magna, major, mannii, marchantii, menziesii, micra, micrantha, microphylla, microscapa, miniata, minutiflora, modesta, monantha, monticola, moorei, murfetii, myriantha, nana, neesii, nitidula, nivea, occidentalis, omissa, orbiculata, ordensis, oreopodion, paleacea, pallida, paradoxa, patens, pedicellaris, peltata, petiolaris, × pingellyensis, planchonii, platypoda, platystigma, porrecta, praefolia, prolifera, prophylla, prostrata, prostratoscaposa, pulchella, purpurascens, pycnoblasta, pygmaea, radicans, ramellosa, rechingeri, roseana, rosulata, rupicola, salina, sargentii, schizandra, schmutzii, scorpioides, serpens, sewelliae, × sidjamesii, silvicola, spatulata, spilos, squamosa, stelliflora, stolonifera, stricticaulis, subhirtella, subtilis, sulphurea, thysanosepala, trichocaulis, tubaestylis, verrucata, walyunga, whittakeri, yilgarnensis, zigzagia, zonaria
Volume 3:
Species Descriptions:
• Nepenthes
• Utricularia subgenus Polypompholyx, U. section Polypompholyx
• Utricularia subgenus Polypompholyx section Pleiochasia, U. subgenus Bivalvaria and U. subgenus Utricularia
Biographies of the Botanists
James Drummond & the Swan River Colony
Appendix:
• New Species
• New Natural Hybrids
• New Combinations
• New Records for Australia
• New Statuses
• Species Recalled from Synonymy
• New Sections
• Application of names in Drosera section Arachnopus (Droseraceae)
• A Note about Orthographically Corrected Names
• Glossary
• Botanical Latin Abbreviations
• Botanical symbols
• Author Abbreviations
• Herbarium Abbreviations
• Pronunciation of Names
Bibliography
Index
Signed copies bear the signature of Allen Lowrie. Volume 1 of each set bears a unique set number (from 1 to 500).
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