The Dryandras
Hawthorn, Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria) Inc. and Wildflower Society of Western Australia Inc., Nedlands, 2006.
Quarto, [vi], 237 pages with numerous maps and 'over 320 superb colour photographs ... as well as line drawings of a leaf, fruit, seed and seedling. All line drawings and maps are the work of Margaret Pieroni'.
Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
The half-title is signed and dated by Alex George (October 2006); given that most of you reading this will not be able to refer to the first paragraph of the acknowledgements, the following information will provide some context. Alexander Segger George (born 1939) 'is one of Australia's foremost taxonomic botanists. He is noted as an authority of the genus Banksia (family Proteaceae). With botanical artist Celia Rosser he published a 3-volume work illustrating all known species of the genus. George has published extensively on other proteaceous genera (particularly Dryandra and Synaphea), and genera from the family Myrtaceae (Eucalyptus, Angophora, Corymbia, Verticordia and Calothamnus). He was a member of staff of the Western Australian Herbarium from 1959 to 1981, when he became the first Executive Editor of the "Flora of Australia". His collections, over 17,000 specimens particularly of Western Australian species, are in the Western Australian Herbarium. He has contributed significantly to international botany through his participation in organisations such as the Species Plantarum: Flora of the World project and the International Organisation for Plant Information' ('Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Botany', online).
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