Index Catalog // Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew research repository

2024

Journal article

Keita (Aptandraceae-Olacaceae s.l.), a new genus for African species previously ascribed to Anacolosa, including K. deniseae sp. nov., an Endangered submontane forest liana from Simandou, Republic of Guinea.

We show that the two continental African species previously ascribed to the genus , differ in so many architectural, floral and vegetative characters from the remaining species of the genus (which occur from Madagascar to the western Pacific, including the type) that they clearly represent a separate genus. The African...

Cheek, Martin ; Molmou, Denise ; Gosline, George ; Magassouba, Sékou

Threatened species, Keita , Taxonomy, Anacolosa, Simandou (Republic of Guinea), Vegetative apomixis, New species, New genus, and Republic of Guinea

2023

Journal article

A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea.

The Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea (CVPRG) is a specimen-based, expert-validated knowledge product, which provides a concise synthesis and overview of current knowledge on 3901 vascular plant species documented from Guinea (Conakry), West Africa, including their accepted names and synonyms, as well as their distribution...

Gosline, George ; Bidault, Ehoarn ; van der Burgt, Xander ; Cahen, Daniel ; Challen, Gill …

Checklists, Nomenclature, Tropical Important Plant Areas project, West Africa, Vascular plants, Guinea, Geographical distribution, and Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea

2022

Journal article

Correction to: Lukea gen. nov. (Monodoreae-Annonaceae) with two new threatened species of shrub from the forests of the Udzungwas, Tanzania and Kaya Ribe, Kenya.

Cheek, Martin ; Luke, W. R. Quentin ; Gosline, George

Kaya Ribe (Kenya), Lukea triciae, New species, Udzungwas (Tanzania), and Corrigendum

2022

Journal article

Piloting development of species conservation action plans in Guinea.

Conservation action plans need to be devised and implemented if we are to reduce the extinction risk faced by globally threatened plants. However, most plant species categorized as threatened globally on the IUCN Red List lack conservation action plans. In West Africa, Guinea is one of the most diverse countries...

Couch, Charlotte ; Molmou, Denise ; Magassouba, Sékou ; Doumbouya, Saïdou ; Diawara, Mamadou …

Pilot study, Guinea, Fieldwork, Threatened plant species, Conservation action plans, IUCN Red List, Tropical Important Plant Areas, and Important Plant Areas

2022

Journal article

Lukea gen. nov. (Monodoreae-Annonaceae) with two new threatened species of shrub from the forests of the Udzungwas, Tanzania and Kaya Ribe, Kenya.

A new genus, Cheek & Gosline (Annonaceae) is erected for two new species to science, Cheek & Gosline from Kaya Ribe, SE Kenya, and Cheek & Gosline from the Udzungwa Mts, Tanzania. is characterised by a flattened circular bowl-shaped receptacle-calyx with a corolla of three free petals that give the...