Richmond: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This field guide deals with the seed plants of the lowlands of East Sabah, Malaysia, and features the 84 most commonly encountered families in the low land rainforest of Danum Vally, Maliau Basin and Imbak Canyon. Plant families are presented alphabetically... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2005. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, maps. Antidesma is a genus in the family Phyllanthaceae (Malpighiales; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato). It comprises trees and shrubs which are conspicuous by their racemes of often abundant red or purple fruits. The genus is most diverse in South-East Asia where it... More
Singapore: Singapore University Press, (2003. third edition, reprint). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. This book gives a brief systematic account of all the major groups of seed plants classified under 41 orders and 178 families which are represented by native or naturalised plants in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Within each order... More
Kota Kinabalu: 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, map. Borneo is one of the top 10 biodiversity hot spots in the world and Hoya diversity on the island is only surpassed by the Philippines at present. Currently it is estimated that there are about 80 species in Borneo, with 72 named... More
Kota Kinabalu: 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, map. Borneo is one of the top 10 biodiversity hot spots in the world and Hoya diversity on the island is only surpassed by the Philippines at present. Currently it is estimated that there are about 80 species in Borneo, with 72 named... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 1999. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This is a useful guide to the species of ginger, their botany, economic value, distribution, with keys for identification. More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. This is the first botanically authoritative and practical illustrated identification guide to Chinese medicinal plants and drugs and their substitutes. It offers authoritative guidance on the identification of the herbal drugs themselves, and the plants from which they are sourced... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white illustrations. More
Poole: Redfern Natural History Productions, 2011. Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations. A beautiful and colourful overview of the twenty seven species of Philippine pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Several species featured in this work have been discovered only in the last two years and are documented here for the very first time. This... More
Brisbane: Author, 2007. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Vietnam's cycads, many of which have been named only in the last 10-15 years, occupy a variety of specialised habitats. Some are obligate beach-dwellers, some live only in the northern mountains, some occur on small offshore islands, while some grow in tiny... More
Beijing: China Esperanto Press, 1998. Small quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. This book includes 199 species in 140 genera in 58 families, and although the number is fairly insignificant, the plants described are typical of the tropical wild plants and flowers found in the wild—and many of them are under... More
Kew: Kew Publishing, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. This is the first full biography of the great Scottish plant collector Robert Fortune, famous for working in China and Japan from 1843 until 1861. This detailed presentation of his life includes an extensive analysis of his travels, plant... More