Flora Societensis Flowering Plants of the Society Islands 1st Ed Hardcover Welch
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Flora Societensis,
A Summary Revision of the Flowering Plants of the Society Islands:
Mehetia, Tahiti, Moorea, Tetiaroa (iles Du Vent); Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora Bora, Tupai, Maupiti, and Mopelia (iles Sous Le Vent)
by Stanley L. Welsh
Published by E.P.S. (1998)
Welch never got the recognition for this labor of love, as he did for his other book, Utah Flora. Very limited numbers of this book were printed, and it is very sought after today.
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A News Article on Stanley Welch's Book :
BOOK ON ISLE FLORA TO FLOWER THIS YEAR
By Deseret News (Sept 19, 1996)
Stanley Welsh of Brigham Young University's Life Science Museum is completing a summary treatment of Society Islands flora, "Flora Societensis," to be published later this year.
"The Society Islands smell like a greenhouse, feel like a greenhouse and are, for practical purposes, a greenhouse without walls or ceiling," Welsh said. "It is a horticultural paradise, where plants from throughout the warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions will grow, often profusely.""Flora Societensis" is the only description of flora in French Polynesia written since 1893. The century-old "Flore de la Polynesie Francais," by Drake del Castillo, was written in French and is long outdated.
Welsh's interest in French Polynesia flora originated in 1955 when a 14-year-old Tahitian girl, Elisabeth Yim Yu Cheung, told him stories of the green flower of apetahia that only grew on the Temehani Plateau of her home island, Raiatea.
Welsh encountered the flower years later at the Smithsonian Institution and eventually collected his own from the island.
Apetahia is precious because it is one of a limited number of native plants in French Polynesia. Today there are only 40 to 50 species of native plants on the islands. The majority of plants have been introduced to the islands over the past several hundred years.
"Captain Cook's voyage through the south seas was really the introduction of foreign plants to the Society Islands and the initial in-troduction of botany to the islands," Welsh said.
In 1769 Cook entered the Society Islands to observe an eclipse of Venus. Along with Cook came two botanists and an illustrator.
About the author:
Stanley Larson Welsh (born 1928) is an American botanist. He has worked as professor of integrative biology at Brigham Young University for 44 years and was the founding curator of that university's herbarium, which is named after him. His fields are North American and Tahitian flora, especially the genera Astragalus, Oxytropis and Atriplex.
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