Carnivorous Plants of Australia
Covers of the three hardback volumes, showing Drosera species and Cephalotus
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| Author | Allen Lowrie |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | University of Western Australia Press |
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1987 (Volume 1) 1989 (Volume 2) 1998 (Volume 3) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, softcover; Volume 3 hardcover only) |
| Pages | xxvi + 202 (Volume 1) xxxviii + 202 (Volume 2) 288 (Volume 3) |
| ISBN | (Volume 1) 0855642998 (Volume 2) 1875560599 (Volume 3) |
| OCLC | 17554752 |
Carnivorous Plants of Australia is a three-volume work on carnivorous plants by Allen Lowrie. The three tomes were published in 1987, 1989, and 1998, by University of Western Australia Press.
An entirely updated three-volume work by Lowrie was published by Redfern Natural History Productions in December 2013 as Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus.
The first volume deals exclusively with tuberous sundews (genus Drosera). The second is devoted to pygmy sundews, but also includes three tuberous species described since the publication of the first volume, as well as two other sundews that do not fit elsewhere (D. glanduligera and D. hamiltonii). The final volume includes the remaining sundews of Australia, together with native species of Aldrovanda, Byblis, Cephalotus, Nepenthes, and Utricularia. Each species is given a four-page treatment, with one page for a botanical description, one for a line drawing of the author's creation, one for a distribution map, and one for assorted colour photographs.
Martin Cheek reviewed the first volume for the March 1988 issue of the Carnivorous Plant Newsletter (CPN). He compared it to Neville Graeme Marchant and Alex George's 1982 treatment of tuberous sundews in Flora Australia (F.A.):
Each plant is very clearly described in a page of text followed by a few interesting paragraphs on its most outstanding features and how to tell it apart from its closest relatives. There follows a full plate of the most superb drawings, far better, more beautiful and comprehensive than the F.A., a distribution map (needless to say, ten times better than F.A.) and outstanding colour plates showing, separately, habit and habitat and a close-up of the flowers.
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