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The botany and macroscopy of Chinese materia medica: sources, substitutes and sustainability.
Interest in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is global. The burgeoning international trade in its crude and processed plant ingredients (Chinese materia medica - CMM) reflects demand across all sectors of healthcare, yet the identification of source plants and CMM has been overlooked for many years leading to problems in safety,...Leon, Christine
Taxonomy, Chinese medicine, Botany, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Materia medica, Conservation, Plant morphology, Authentication, and China
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A new species of Ochna (Ochnaceae) from the Barberton Mountains of Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Ochna barbertonensis is described as a new species from the Barberton Mountains in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The new species is characterised by its suffrutescent habit, elongate-deltoid stipules sometimes with broadened base, mucronate leaf tip and high anther to filament ratio, where the anthers are ca. two times longer than the... -
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Jacquemontia (Convolvulaceae) in Bolivia and Peru.
Wood, John R.I. ; Clegg, Rosemary
Conservation, Cerrado, Chaco , Argentina , Distribution , New species , Brazil, Taxonomy, Andes, Paraguay , and Ecuador
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A revision of Gomphostemma (Lamiaceae).
The genus Wall. ex Benth. is revised. Thirty-one species are recognised with three new species described: Bongch. from north-eastern Thailand, southern Laos and central Vietnam, Bongch. and Bongch. from northern Myanmar. Thirty names are lectotypified. A key to species, distribution maps and conservation categories for all species are provided.Conservation, Lamioideae, Gomphostemma, Southeast Asia, Revisions, and Taxonomy
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Tribe Shoreae (Dipterocarpaceae subfamily Dipterocarpoideae) Finally Dissected.
The dipterocarp tribe Shoreae, perhaps more than any other members of this elegant family of often giant emergent trees, is familiar to all who visit the once ubiquitous lowland forests of tropical Asia. Timbers of the genus comprised the bulk of hardwood traded on international markets for thirty years, since...Ashton, P. S. ; Heckenhauer, J.
Conservation, Phylogenetics, Shorea, Nomenclature, Taxonomy, and Asia
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