A Rare Plant Register (RPR) is a mini flora with details of the rarest species in a county, focusing on rarity, not conservation. This register for East Gloucestershire (vice county 33) is illustrated in full colour with maps, photographs, etc., and has appendices and a comprehensive index.
Chris Dixon grew up in West Wales, and studied at Manchester and Amsterdam, before gaining a doctorate in botany from the University of Vienna. He now lives with his partner and their son in Oxford. In 2017, he published A Guide to Britain's Rarest Plants, and he has been the BSBI's vice-county recorder for East Gloucestershire (VC33) since 2018. Since 2022, he has worked as Senior Curator of the British and Irish Herbarium at the Natural History Museum in London.