The Orchids of Tasmania

The Orchids of Tasmania
Author: David Lloyd Jones
Publisher: Melbourne University
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1999
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

This illustrated volume describes in detail every known Tasmanian orchid. Its features include: colour photographs of every species; drawings and location maps; identification keys based on floral features; and notes on taxonomy, distribution, habitat, flowering time and response to fire.

Orchids of Western Australia

Orchids of Western Australia
Author: Andrew Brown
Publisher: ISBS
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2008
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780980296457

Written by three of Western Australia's most prominent orchidologists and featuring over 200 full-page, color illustrations by renowned botanical artist Pat Dundas, this long-awaited volume is the first modern text cataloging all known species of orchids in Western Australia. It is a comprehensive resource for hardened enthusiasts and initiates alike. Never before has such a wealth of information on Western Australian orchids been available in a single book. Along with a detailed introduction to Western Australian orchids, it contains: species placed in taxonomic groupings to make it easier to differentiate between those that are closely related . information on each species, including who named them and where they were first collected . their habitat, distribution, flowering period, size, and distinguishing features . illustrations of the entire plant with flowers, stems, and leaves rendered in exquisite detail, making it easier to correctly identify the orchid (all illustrations reduced from life-size, using a common scale, allowing realistic size comparisons between species).

Orchids

Orchids
Author: IUCN/SSC Orchid Specialist Group
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1996
Genre: Ecological surveys
ISBN: 9782831703251

This action plan chronicles the threats faced by wild orchids, but more importantly to critical habitats that host extraordinarily high orchid diversity and endemicity. It explores and recommends specific ways that national and local government, legislators, scientists and orchid conservationists as well as growers can all help to reverse present trends. The facts and viewpoints presented in this comprehensive document update and supplement the information available to conservation organizations and agencies through the world so that they can lobby their appropriate government offices more effectively.

A Field Guide to the Native Orchids of Southern Australia

A Field Guide to the Native Orchids of Southern Australia
Author: David Lloyd Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Australia's flora boasts over 1,200 species of orchid. This book describes 268 species to help the orchid enthusiast and the causal bushwalker to identify many of the commoner, and some of the special, orchids in the field. It gives a description for each orchid, detailing its distribution, flowering period and habitat.

Orchids of South-west Australia

Orchids of South-west Australia
Author: Noel Hoffman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1998
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

A guide to identifying the native orchids of southwest Western Australia, based on a simple, mainly pictoral key directing the reader to the section addressing the distinctive features of each species and information on distribution, habitat, flowering period, and the common name. Includes full desc

The Orchids of Victoria

The Orchids of Victoria
Author: Gary N. Backhouse
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1995
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

The Orchids of Victoria is designed for the amateur and professional alike. Every species - including several that have not been illustrated before - is shown here in full colour. The detailed description of each is designed to make identification simple, and is accompanied by a distribution map and imformation about the flowering time, habitat and conservation status of the species. Gary Backhouse and Jeffrey Jeanes have also included the most up-to-date information on the biology and ecology of orchids. With its easy-to-follow aids to identification and its authoritative text, The Orchids of Victoria will be an invaluable companion for orchid-lovers in the home or field.

Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 1

Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 1
Author: Enid Mayfield
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0643102000

The Otway region of Victoria, with its temperate rainforests, mountain ash forests, heathlands, plains and coastal dunes, has an extraordinarily rich and diverse flora. The first volume of Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges covers the orchids, irises, lilies, grass-trees, mat-rushes and other petaloid monocotyledonous plants. Enid Mayfield's exquisite colour illustrations of more than 200 species reveal tiny botanical details which enable the untrained botanist to identify each species with ease. The section on orchids describes and illustrates more than 130 species, highlighting their fascinating adaptations for attracting specific pollinating insects. The clear text and illustrations frequently draw attention to the relationship of plants to the broader environment, the impact of fire, the role of pollinators and the importance of fungi.