Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT

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By: Lachlan M Copeland, Gary N Backhouse

eBook - January 2022 - eRetailers

An essential guide for all orchid enthusiasts, covering the richest area for wild orchids in Australia.

This comprehensive guide describes the 582 species of wild orchids that occur in NSW and the ACT. This region covers the richest area for wild orchids in Australia and includes over 500 species of seasonal ground orchids and 62 species of evergreen tree and rock orchids. Orchids found in this region include the tallest, heaviest, smallest flowered, most numerous flowered and most bizarre orchids in Australia, including elusive underground species. + Full description

Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT describes each species, enabling their identification in the field, and includes over 600 photographs of wild orchids in their natural habitat and distribution maps for almost all species. Featuring orchids with a dazzling array of colour and form, this is the essential guide for all orchid enthusiasts.

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Read more on our blog:
Dr Lachlan Copeland reveals the surprising diversity and extraordinary beauty of Australia's native orchids, and what inspired him and co-author Gary Backhouse to write this book: Wild About Native Orchids: Q&A with Lachlan Copeland

Reviews

"This is an important addition to the already rich trove of Australian field guides, is a must for any NSW field naturalist, and would also be of practical interest to those in northern Victoria and south-eastern Queensland."
Ian Fraser Natural History Reviews #30, January 2022

"It is a very useful, readable resource and I recommend the inclusion of Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT on your book case… or better still beside your computer as you identify your orchid photos."
Jeanette Jeffery, Australian Native Plants Society Canberra Region 21(1), March 2022

"Featuring orchids with a dazzling array of colour and form, this is the essential guide for all orchid enthusiasts."
Australian Wildlife Volume 3, 2022

Details

Paperback | January 2022 | $ 49.99
ISBN: 9781486313686 | 456 pages | 215 x 148 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour photographs, Maps

ePDF | January 2022
ISBN: 9781486313693
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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ePUB | January 2022
ISBN: 9781486313709
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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Features

Covers all of the wild orchids of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory (as at February 2021).
Includes 65 species of distinctive but as yet undescribed orchids that occur in the region.
Includes photographs of almost all species of wild orchids occurring in the region, including several species never illustrated before.
Most comprehensive field guide for orchids of the region ever produced.

Reader notes
Acknowledgements
Photographic credits
Abbreviations

Diversity, biology and ecology
Species profiles
Hybrid orchids

Glossary
Further reading
Index of scientific names
Index of common names

Authors

Dr Lachlan M. Copeland is a botanist specialising in the taxonomy and conservation of rare or threatened plants. Over 25 years, he has discovered several new orchid species and published more than 45 scientific papers relating to native orchids and other plants of conservation significance. Like most orchid enthusiasts, he loves nothing more than getting out into the bush and finding and photographing native orchids in their natural habitat.

Gary N. Backhouse worked in biodiversity conservation with the Victorian Government until his retirement in 2012. He has travelled to most of the major centres for orchid diversity around the world and has photographed over 5000 species of orchids in the wild. Gary is author or co-author of three books on native orchids of Victoria and a book on Caladenia orchids of Australia.