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Afrothismiaceae (Dioscoreales), a new fully mycoheterotrophic family endemic to tropical Africa.
is a genus of non-photosynthetic mycoheterotrophs from the forests of continental tropical Africa. Multiple phylogenetic inferences using molecular data recover the genus as sister to a clade comprising mycoheterotrophic Thismiaceae and the photosynthetic family Taccaceae, contrary to earlier placements of and Thismiaceae within Burmanniaceae. Morphological support for separating from the... -
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Nepenthes barcelonae (Nepenthaceae), a new species from Luzon, Philippines.
Nepenthes barcelonae is described as a new species in sect. Insignes, where it is unique in the inset mouth and the dichromic upper pitchers (first-produced pitchers red, later-produced pitchers green) which are also dimorphic. This is a newly recorded phenomenon in the genus: the first produced (primary upper pitchers) are...Cheek, Martin ; Tandang, Danilo N. ; Pelser, Pieter B.
Luzon (Philippines), New species, Philippines, Nepenthes barcelonae, and Endangered species
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A taxonomic synopsis of unifoliolate continental African Vepris (Rutaceae).
Descriptions and illustrations are presented for three new species to science, Cheek Cheek (both Udzungwa Mts, Tanzania), and Q.Luke & Cheek (SE Kenyan kaya forests), in the context of a synoptic taxonomic revision and with an identification key to all the known unifoliolate taxa of in continental Africa. The new... -