Checklist of Papuasian Orchids by Paul Ormerod

Checklist of Papuasian Orchids by Paul Ormerod

This is the most comprehensive account to date of all Papua New Guineas wild orchids and will no doubt prove to be the essential reference to PNG's orchids for all botanists, ecologists and orchid enthusiasts for decades to come. All types and relevant data including where published are listed and the herbariums where they are kept. All synonymous names, where published and their types and the herbarium/s where kept and other relevant data are also listed. 35 new species and subspecies are also described for the first time accompanied by technical illustrations. A further 25 new scientific combinations are also proposed along with the establishment of new infrageneric classifications in the genera Chiloschista, Corybas, Crepidum, Grammatophyllum, Oberonia, Styloglossum & Taeniophyllum. English text; 494 pages; soft cover. A4 size.

Paul Ormerod is an economist, author and entrepreneur. He is currently a Visiting Professor at University College London (UCL), where he supervises graduate students in machine learning. Paul read economics at Cambridge and took an MPhil in economics at Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences in 2006, and in 2009 was awarded a DSc honoris causa by the University of Durham for the distinction of his contribution to economics. In addition to economic journals, he has published in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B and Evolution and Human Behavior. Paul has published four best-selling books on economics: Death of Economics, Butterfly Economics, Why Most Things Fail and Positive Linking. He has also written for the IEA on many occasions. He was a founder of the Henley Centre for Forecasting Ltd., which the management sold to Martin Sorrell's WPP Group in the 1990s.

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ISBN 13	9780987620606
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Title	Checklist of Papuasian Orchids
Author	Paul Ormerod
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nature & Travel Books
Year published	2017-05-20
Number of pages	496
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