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Cruttwell, N. E. G.

An Account of Plant-Hunting in the Highlands of New Guinea [with:] An Expedition to the Finisterre Mountains of Eastern New Guinea, by A. C. Jermy & C. D. Sayers

1962-1967

57,34 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1962-1967
Lugar de impresión
London. Journal of Royal Horticultural Society
Autor
Cruttwell, N. E. G.
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Nature - Botany Orchids
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [22 x 14 cm]; 77-86; 117-128 pp, 2 maps with insets, photo illustrations including in color. bound in green heavy paper wraps with printed label, fine and clean, although cover is slightly faded. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Two interesting papers on plant hunting extracted from this great journal. Cruttwell lived on Cape Vogel Peninsula in South-east Papua and explores this area and nearby Daga Country, while the Jermy-Sayers paper was based on the 1964 expedition by the British Museum and University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In both papers there is description of some of the orchids seen in this richest of orchid areas, including Grammatphyllum papuanum, Dendrobium forbesii, Latourea group of dendrobiums, Dendrobium johnsoniae (color illus), Dendrobium caespitficum (color illus), etc, as well as rhododendrons, and other flowering plants.
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