Allen Lowrie

Allen Lowrie (* 1948 ) is a Western Australian botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Lowrie ".

Live and act

Lowrie first came into contact with the region's carnivorous flora in the late 1960s and began studying it as an amateur in the early 1970s. At times he still lived from activities in gold mining and as the inventor of electronic devices for swimming pool maintenance, but with increasing duration of occupation with the plants, the botanical hobby became a profession.

Numerous new species, especially of the genera Drosera , Byblis and Utricularia , were discovered by him and - often in collaboration with Neville Marchant or John Godfrey Conran - first described. Another focus of his work is on the genus Stylidium . Lowrie presented the three-volume standard work " Carnivorous Plants Of Australia " from 1986 to 1998 . He lives in Duncraig, a suburb of Perth , is married with two daughters.

Lowrie began early on to sell the plants he described to collectors internationally. Since many of the plants he drove out have limited occurrences and are extremely rare and in some cases he sells not only seeds but also live plants, he has been accused of contributing to the extinction of these species through excessive collection.

Works

• Carnivorous Plants of Australia . Volume 1, University of Western Australia Press, 1988. ISBN 085564253X
• Carnivorous Plants of Australia . Volume 2, University of Western Australia Press, 1989. ISBN 0855642998
• Carnivorous Plants of Australia . Volume 3, University of Western Australia Press, 1999. ISBN 1875560599

Individual evidence

1. ^ Allen Lowrie: Carnivorous Plants of Australia , Volume 2, University of Western Australia Press, 1989, ISBN 0855642998

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Allen Lowrie at the IPNI