monograph
A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject.
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Charles Clarke
Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich South from 1997 until 2010, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006.
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Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
.Clarke, C.M. 1997. ''Nepenthes of Borneo''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. It was first published in 1997 by
Natural History Publications (Borneo) Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn. Bhd. is a publishing house based in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. It is among the leading English language and natural history publishers in Malaysia and the entire Southeast Asian region. The company has publis ...
, and reprinted in 2006. Clarke describes it as "primarily an ecological monograph".Clarke, C.M. 2001. ''
Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia
''Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia'' is a monograph by Charles Clarke on the tropical pitcher plants of Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and their minor surrounding islands. It was published in 2001 by Natural History Publications (Borneo ...
''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu.
Content
The book describes and illustrates 31 species in detail. A further two "undescribed and incompletely diagnosed taxa" are included: ''Nepenthes'' sp. A (possibly a form of '' N. fusca'') and ''Nepenthes'' sp. B (later described as '' N. hurrelliana'').Cheek, M., M. Jebb, C.C. Lee, A. Lamb & A. Phillipps. 2003. ''Nepenthes hurrelliana'' (Nepenthaceae), a new species of pitcher plant from Borneo. ''Sabah Parks Nature Journal'' 6: 117–124. Six
taxa
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are also covered under "dubious species and erroneous records": '' N. alata'', '' N. gymnamphora'', '' N. macfarlanei'', and '' N. maxima'' (which are all shown to be absent from the island); ''N.'' sp. "elegance" (which is recognised as a
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of '' N. rafflesiana'', was later described by Clarke and colleagues as '' N. baramensis'',Clarke, C., J.A. Moran & C.C. Lee 2011. ''Nepenthes baramensis'' (Nepenthaceae) – a new species from north-western Borneo . ''Blumea'' 56(3): 229–233. and is now recognised as '' N. hemsleyana''Scharmann, M. & T.U. Grafe 2013. Reinstatement of ''Nepenthes hemsleyana'' (Nepenthaceae), an endemic pitcher plant from Borneo, with a discussion of associated ''Nepenthes'' taxa. ''Blumea'' 58(1): 8–12. ); and '' N. neglecta'' (which Clarke suggests is a natural hybrid between ''N. gracilis'' and ''N. mirabilis''). The monograph also provides brief descriptions of 16 selected
natural hybrid
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s.
The taxonomy presented in ''Nepenthes of Borneo'' almost wholly agrees with that of
Matthew Jebb
Matthew Hilary Peter Jebb (born 1958) is an Irish botanist and taxonomist specialising in the ant plant genera ''Squamellaria'', ''Myrmecodia'', ''Hydnophytum'', ''Myrmephytum'' and ''Anthorrhiza'', as well as the carnivorous plant genus ''Nepe ...
preface
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, Clarke writes:
My aim is to provide a balanced, first-hand account of the plants in an ecological context, partly based on the research I performed on them in Brunei in 1989 and 1990. This information is intended to complement the recent taxonomic revision of ''Nepenthes'' by M. Jebb and M. Cheek.
Barry Meyers-Rice reviewed ''Nepenthes of Borneo'' in the December 1998 issue of the ''
Carnivorous Plant Newsletter
The ''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'' is the official publication of the International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS), the largest such organization in the world. It is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
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''. He described the work as a "good, solid book that treats its subject very well".Meyers-Rice, B. 1998. Book Review. ''
Carnivorous Plant Newsletter
The ''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'' is the official publication of the International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS), the largest such organization in the world. It is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
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'' 27(4): 115. Rice praised the publication's habitat photographs and wrote that the " ntent that really makes this book interesting and different from other carnivorous plant books is its emphasis on the context of ''Nepenthes'' in its natural habitat".
''Nepenthes of Borneo'' was also reviewed by Miroslav Holub and Zdeněk Žáček in a 1998 issue of '' Trifid'' and Martin Spousta in a 2008 issue of '' Trifid Interinfo''. Spousta, M. 2008. Knihovník doporučuje: Charles Clarke - ''Nepenthes of Borneo''. '' Trifid Interinfo'' 2008(2): 8.