Allen Lowrie

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

Life and work

Lowrie came in the late 1960s in contact with the carnivorous flora of the region and began to deal in the early 1970s as an amateur with it. He lived at times even of activities in gold mining as well, however, as the inventor of electronic devices for swimming pool maintenance, with increasing duration of employment 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 and John Godfrey Conran - first described. Another focus of his work is on the genus Stylidium. Lowrie laid from 1986 to 1998, the three-volume standard work " Carnivorous Plants Of Australia " before. He lives in Duncraig, a suburb of Perth, is married and has two daughters.

Lowrie has started early, the plants described by him to sell internationally also to collectors. Since many of the displaced plants he have limited resources and are extremely rare and he sold partly not only seeds but also live plants, has been accused of contributing to the extinction of these species by excessive Absammlung.

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