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Orchids Of Borneo Author : Phillip Cribb Classes : Plants Price : US$ 16.00 Availability : Pages : 117 Dimensions : 216. 154. 9 mm ISBN : 983-812-018-9 Code : 99008 |
Slipper orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum vie with pitcher plants and Rafflesia as Borneo's most spectacular and instantly recognisable plants. The island can boast a dozen species including several of the most beautiful in the genus.
Paphiopedilum rothschildianum and P.sanderianum were sensations when first discovered in late Victorian days, and they continue to amaze us with their spectacular flowers, the petals spreading to 30 cm across in the former and up to metre long in the latter.
We still know very little about these magnificent plants and their relatives in the wild. In this book our current knowledge of the taxonomy, distribution, ecology and biology of these extraordinary plants is considered.
Nearly all of the Bornean species are naturally rare in the wild, and sadly some are now threatened with extinction unless their habitats can be better protected.
Fortunately all can still be found in the wild at present and with our help will continue to flourish in their remote habitats.
AUTHOR
Phillip Cribb was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham. He joined the staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1974 and is now a Senior Principal Scientific Officer and Curator of the Orchid Herbarium.
He is a member of the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society and the International Orchid Commission and is joint editor of the Handbook of Orchid Nomenclature and Registration, ed. 4 (1992).
He is the author of the Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species now in its third edition and co-author of The Mountain Flowers of Southern Tanzania (1982) with P. Leedal. The Genus Pleione which he wrote with C.Z. Tang and I. Butterfield was published as volume 184, part 3 of Curitis's Botanical Magazine in 1983 and a second edition was published in 1988.
The genus Cypripedium, a Curtis's Botanical Magazine Monograph, has just been published. He specialises in the Orchidaceae of tropical Africa and Southeast Asia and has written numerous articles, floristic accounts and revisions over the past few years.