Cephalotus - the Albany Pitcher Plant

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Autoren	Adam Cross, Nick Kalfas, Richard Nunn, John Conran
Sprache	Englisch
ISBN	9781908787323
Verlag	Redfern Natural History
Seiten	142
Größe	205 x 270 mm
Format	Gebunden
Bilder	Farbfotos
Erscheinungsjahr	2019 Limited Reprint: April 2025

Released in March 2019, we are proud to present the first monograph of Cephalotus follicularis—commonly known as the Albany pitcher plant.

Cephalotus is instantly recognisable for its distinctive and charismatic insect-trapping leaves. It is unique amongst carnivorous plants worldwide, being the only carnivorous plant in the rosid clade of flowering plants and the only monotypic family and genus of pitcher plants. Taking into account its extreme genetic and geographic isolation in the southwest of Western Australia, its pitcher leaves represent perhaps the most astounding example of convergent evolution amongst carnivorous plants, their toothed mouths and overarching lids being highly reminiscent of Nepenthes tropical pitcher plants and American pitcher plants alike. Cephalotus is extremely localised, surviving in only a fragment of its historic range as a result of habitat loss, disruption of natural ecological succession, and poaching.

This generously illustrated volume documents this remarkable Australian endemic in unprecedented detail, providing the most up to date summary of its status in the wild along with detailed studies of its essential organs.

Schlagworte:Monografie (149)Pflanzen (204)planten (317)plants (290)