Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Sulawesi

Book excerpt: "Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Sulawesi" is a beautifuland colourful overview of the eleven species of Sulawesian pitcherplants (Nepenthes). Several species featured in this work havebeen discovered only in the last two years and are documented herefor the very first time.This lavishly illustrated guide book consists of a shortintroduction to Nepenthes, followed by an overview of the speciesknown from Sulawesi (complete with full page map). Each species isthen profiled over two pages with the use of three images (most ofwhich have never been published before) and a brief, but detailedtext summary written in clear, easy-to-understand English.Concluding sections cover Nepenthes hybrids, conservation ofSulawesian pitcher plants, Bibliography, Index and About theAuthors.The species documented in this work are:N. eymaeN. glabrataN. gracilisN. hamataN. maximaN. mirabilisN. nigra ined.N. pitopangiiN. tentaculataN. tomorianaN. undulatifolia ined.