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Author Correction: One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains.
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Author Correction: Blocking then stinging as a case of two-step evolution of defensive cage architectures in herbivore-driven ecosystems.
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Author Correction: Periodic Table of Food Initiative for generating biomolecular knowledge of edible biodiversity.
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One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains.
Amazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding forest types is still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin to reshape floodplain... -
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Gundelia tournefortii L. (Akkoub): a review of a valuable wild vegetable from Eastern Mediterranean.
L. (Asteraceae) is an artichoke-like wild edible vegetable that grows in the semi-arid climate of the East Mediterranean. Due to its high cultural and economic values for culinary and therapeutic uses, this plant is exposed to overharvesting driven by household consumption and trade, threatening the survival of natural populations. Some...Hani, N. ; Abulaila, K. ; Howes, M.-J. R. ; Mattana, E. ; Bacci, S. …
Traditional food, Propagation, Micronutrients, Mediterranean diet, Gundelia tournefortii, and Wild edible vegetables
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The Tahitian chestnut [Inocarpus fagifer (Parkinson ex F.A.Zorn) Fosberg, Fabaceae], a neglected multi-purpose tree from the Asia–Pacific region.
The Tahitian (or Polynesian) chestnut is distributed widely in tropical South-East Asia and in the Pacific region. It is an important component in traditional agroforestry systems. However, its importance as a food plant has decreased considerably. There is no evidence that the species has ever been domesticated, nor that deliberate...Müller, Jonas V.
Asia, Canoe plant, Crop improvement, Underutilised crop, Food security, Ecosystem services, Livelihood, Cinderella tree, Multi-purpose trees, Inocarpus fagifer, and Agroforestry
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Periodic Table of Food Initiative for generating biomolecular knowledge of edible biodiversity.
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Who Harvests and Why? Characteristics of Guatemalan Households Harvesting Xaté (Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti).
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A biogeographical appraisal of the threatened South East Africa Montane Archipelago ecoregion..
Recent biological surveys of ancient inselbergs in southern Malawi and northern Mozambique have led to the discovery and description of many species new to science, and overlapping centres of endemism across multiple taxa. Combining these endemic taxa with data on geology and climate, we propose the ‘South East Africa Montane... -
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A new species of Lasjia (Proteaceae) from Sulawesi: Lasjia griseifolia Utteridge & Brambach.
Utteridge & Brambach, a member of the Proteaceae, is described and illustrated as a new species from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The new species is similar to , also from Sulawesi, and morphological differences between the taxa are discussed; a line illustration and detailed notes on the conservation status... -
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A framework for tracing timber following the Ukraine invasion.
Scientific testing including stable isotope ratio analysis (SIRA) and trace element analysis (TEA) is critical for establishing plant origin, tackling deforestation and enforcing economic sanctions. Yet methods combining SIRA and TEA into robust models for origin verification and determination are lacking. Here we report a (1) large Eastern European timber... -
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Expanding our knowledge of the coffee family in continental Africa: a synopsis of the genus Pyrostria (Rubiaceae).
A summary of the species of from continental Africa is presented, including full descriptions of three new species, , and . from the coastal forests of the Tanzania-Mozambique border region, and one new subspecies, subsp. from Zambia. is the first species with plurilocular (3-lobed) fruits and the second hermaphrodite species...Matheka, Kennedy W. ; Goyder, David ; Darbyshire, Iain
Conservation, Pyrostria, IUCN Red List, Rubiaceae, Africa, Rovuma Centre of Endemism, Taxonomy, Vanguerieae, and New species
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A new R package to parse plant species occurrence records into unique collection events efficiently reduces data redundancy.
Biodiversity data aggregators, such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) suffer from inflation of the number of occurrence records when data from different databases are merged but not fully reconciled. The ParseGBIF workflow is designed to parse duplicate GBIF species occurrence records into unique collection events (gatherings) and to optimise... -
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Blocking then stinging as a case of two-step evolution of defensive cage architectures in herbivore-driven ecosystems.
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Taxonomic characterisation of the Regianum clade (genus Tuber) and the trait evolution of spore size among true truffles.
The genus comprises ectomycorrhizal fungal species producing belowground ascomata, including the gastronomically most prominent hypogeous fungi. Since the discovery and description of new species are ongoing, the proportion of undescribed species can be considerable and the taxonomy of the genus goes often through changes. The taxonomy of the genus would... -
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Four new deciduous species of Hyperacanthus (Rubiaceae: Gardenieae) from western Madagascar: the sofikomba alliance.
The genus comprises 11 species, nine in Madagascar and two in Africa, although many Madagascan species remain undescribed. All Madagascan species of are evergreen trees occurring in humid and semi-humid forest. Four deciduous species occur in the dry forests of northern, western, and southern Madagascar but are unknown to science.... -
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Integrative taxonomy led to recognising Clusia reginae (Clusiaceae), a new tree species from the Venezuelan Andes.
(Clusiaceae) is described using an integrative taxonomy approach. Field observations, discriminant analyses of morphological characters and phylogenetic inference based on molecular data led to the recognition of a new species of tree. This new taxon is distinct for having broadly obovate leaves, white petals, bright yellow flower resin and relatively...Luján, Manuel ; Paolini-Ruiz, Jorge ; Sanoja, Elio ; Rojas, Cherry A. ; Ely, Francisca
Clusia reginae, New species, Venezuela, Andes, and Taxonomy
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Global conservation status of the jawed vertebrate Tree of Life.
Human-driven extinction threatens entire lineages across the Tree of Life. Here we assess the conservation status of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history, using three policy-relevant approaches. First, we calculate an index of threat to overall evolutionary history, showing that we expect to lose 86–150 billion years (11–19%) of jawed vertebrate evolutionary...Gumbs, Rikki ; Scott, Oenone ; Bates, Ryan ; Böhm, Monika ; Forest, Félix …
Tree of Life, Conservation status, Jawed vertebrates, and Vertebrates
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Description of five new species of the Madagascan flagship plant genus Ravenala (Strelitziaceae).
Madagascar’s emblematic traveller’s tree is a monospecific genus within Strelitziaceae, the family of the South African bird of paradise. Until now, this endemic genus consisted of a single species: Sonn., which is grown everywhere in the tropics as an ornamental plant. The plant is immediately recognizable for its huge fan-forming... -
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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... -
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Plant invasion and naturalization are influenced by genome size, ecology and economic use globally.
Human factors and plant characteristics are important drivers of plant invasions, which threaten ecosystem integrity, biodiversity and human well-being. However, while previous studies often examined a limited number of factors or focused on a specific invasion stage (e.g., naturalization) for specific regions, a multi-factor and multi-stage analysis at the global...Guo, Kun ; Pyšek, Petr ; van Kleunen, Mark ; Kinlock, Nicole L. ; Lučanová, Magdalena …
Plant naturalization, Genome size, Plant invasion, Economic use, and Ecology
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The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa’s major land uses.
Sub-Saharan Africa is under-represented in global biodiversity datasets, particularly regarding the impact of land use on species’ population abundances. Drawing on recent advances in expert elicitation to ensure data consistency, 200 experts were convened using a modified-Delphi process to estimate ‘intactness scores’: the remaining proportion of an ‘intact’ reference population... -
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Human influence on the distribution of cacao: insights from remote sensing and biogeography.
Cacao ( , Malvaceae) is an important tree crop in Africa and in the Americas. Current genomic evidence suggests that its original range in Tropical Americas was smaller than its current distribution and that human-mediated dispersal occurred before European colonization. This includes regions like Mesoamerica and Eastern Amazonia where cacao... -
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MycoNews 2023: Editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news.
This fifth annual edition of starts with an editorial on the critical importance of International Mycological Congresses (IMCs) to the health of mycology. Items on Counting down to IMC12, the State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023, and progress towards Improving nomenclatural stability in medically important fungi follow. Reports...Hawksworth, David L.
Book reviews, Meeting reports, IMC12, Obituaries, Nomenclatural stability, International mycological congresses, and Birthday greetings
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Repeated upslope biome shifts in Saxifraga during late-Cenozoic climate cooling.
Mountains are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, and plant lineages that inhabit them have some of the highest speciation rates ever recorded. Plant diversity within the alpine zone - the elevation above which trees cannot grow—contributes significantly to overall diversity within mountain systems, but the origins of alpine... -
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A new species of the Marlierea group (Myrcia sect. Aulomyrcia, Myrtaceae) from the cacao region of Bahia, Brazil.
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Telipogon leisberthvelezii (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae), a new orchid species from the Cordillera del Cóndor in Ecuador.
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Using morphometrics to distinguish the restinga and cerrado ecotypes of wild Anacardium occidentale (Anacardiaceae): a preliminary study in northeastern Brazil.
The cashew tree is a globally important food species and in Brazil is a natural component of cerrado and restinga vegetation and has an important role in local economies as a food and medicinal plant. Nevertheless, diversity studies of wild populations—the most important reservoir of natural variation—of this naturally widespread... -
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A taxonomic revision of the genus Weberbauerella Ulbr. (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) in Peru and Chile.
The little-known and infrequently collected papilionoid legume genus is only known from outlying regions of the Atacama Desert. Presently it comprises three species, one in Chile and two in Peru. These small, woody, perennial species, enigmatic in both occurrence and form, are found growing in isolated populations in climatically extreme...Orellana-Garcia, A. ; Hechenleitner, P. ; Whaley, O. Q. ; Capcha-Ramos, J. ; Moat, J. …
Fog oasis, Taxonomy, Chile, Weberbauerella, Peru, Fabaceae, Lomas vegetation., and Coastal desert
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Undiscovered bird extinctions obscure the true magnitude of human-driven extinction waves.
Birds are among the best-studied animal groups, but their prehistoric diversity is poorly known due to low fossilization potential. Hence, while many human-driven bird extinctions (i.e., extinctions caused directly by human activities such as hunting, as well as indirectly through human-associated impacts such as land use change, fire, and the... -
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A fungal plant pathogen discovered in the Devonian Rhynie Chert.
are integral to well-functioning ecosystems, and their broader impact on Earth systems is widely acknowledged. Fossil evidence from the Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK) shows that were already diverse in terrestrial ecosystems over 407-million-years-ago, yet evidence for the occurrence of the subkingdom of that includes the phyla and ) in this... -
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An Annotated Checklist of Cyrtandra, Cyrtandropsis and Sepikea (Gesneriaceae) in New Guinea.
Ninety-two New Guinea J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. names, nine Lauterb. names and one species of Schltr. are recognised here, presented in alphabetical order with notes on typification based on the literature and preliminary herbarium observations. A new name, , is proposed for the illegitimate name Schltr. Lectotypes are selected for 66...Bramley, G. L. C. ; Atkins, H. J. ; Kartonegoro, A. ; Jimbo, T.
Cyrtandra, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Sepikea, Checklists, Neotype, Taxonomy, Cyrtandropsis, and Lectotype
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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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Domestication of the Amazonian fruit tree cupuaçu may have stretched over the past 8000 years.
Amazonia, one of the largest and most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, is a significant yet less-known arena for ancient plant domestication. Here, we traced the origins of ( ), an Amazonian tree crop closely related to cacao ( ), cherished for its flavorful seed-pulp, by employing an extensive genomic analysis... -
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Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora.
Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on Earth, we mapped tree species-diversity and tree species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution, and investigated drivers for diversity and richness. Using only location, stratified by forest type, as predictor, our spatial model, to the best of our knowledge, provides the most... -
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Bridging local and scientific knowledge for area-based conservation of useful plants in Colombia.
While the importance of interdisciplinary approaches is increasingly recognised in conservation, bridging knowledge systems across scales remains a fundamental challenge. Focusing on the Important Plant Areas (IPA) approach, we evaluate how complementing scientific and local knowledge can better inform the conservation of useful plants in Colombia. We worked in three... -
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Restringing some coral beads — nomenclatural notes on Nertera (Rubiaceae).
is reduced to the synonymy of . A new combination, , is proposed to replace , as the name for a species endemic to Tristan da Cunha. Nine lectotypes are designated.Turner, I. M.
Lectotypification, Nertera granadensis, Tristan da Cunha, Major synonym, Geophila humifusa, Nertera, Nomenclature, and Malaysia
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Disrupting iron homeostasis can potentiate colistin activity and overcome colistin resistance mechanisms in Gram-Negative Bacteria.
is a Gram-negative priority pathogen that can readily overcome antibiotic treatment through a range of intrinsic and acquired resistance mechanisms. Treatment of carbapenem-resistant largely relies on the use of colistin in cases where other treatment options have been exhausted. However, the emergence of resistance against this last-line drug has significantly... -
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Using the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation to guide conservation implementation in the UK Overseas Territories.
Clubbe, Colin ; Hamilton, Martin ; Corcoran, Marcella
Conservation assessments, UKOTs, Red listing, Plant conservation, Threatened species, Important plant areas, and GSPC
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Genetic diversity, compatibility patterns and seed quality in isolated populations of Cypripedium calceolus (Orchidaceae).
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“BIFloraExplorer”: A Taxonomic, Genetic, and Ecological Data Resource for the Vascular Plants of Britain and Ireland.
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A further new species of Isoglossa (Acanthaceae) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania.
I.Darbysh. & Hemp (Acanthaceae), from submontane moist forest at Mwala in the South Pare Mountains of northeastern Tanzania, is described and illustrated. This species is considered to be related to (S.Moore) Lindau and (Vahl) Brummitt & J.R.I.Wood, which are widespread in the montane forests of eastern Africa, but it clearly...Darbyshire, Iain ; Hemp, Andreas
Conservation, New species, Isoglossinae, IUCN Red List, Eastern Arc Mountains (Tanzania), Taxonomy, Extinction risk, and Isoglossa
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Wrightia vietnamensis (Apocynaceae), a new species from Vietnam.
A new species of (Apocynaceae) from Vietnam, Hazell & D.J.Middleton, is described and illustrated. Seed was collected on a Vietnamese led international collaborative expedition and grown on in the Temperate House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. When it matured and flowered, it was found to be an undescribed species....Hazell, Emily C. ; Baines, Richard A. ; Nguyen, Van Dzu ; Francis, Jessica V. ; Middleton, David J.
Karst limestone, Bat Dai Son (Vietnam), Vietnam, Taxonomy, and Wrightia vietnamensis
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An account of the Cunoniaceae in the Solomon archipelago and Vanuatu.
Five genera of the largely southern hemisphere family Cunoniaceae occur in the Solomon archipelago (Solomon Islands plus the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea): (previously ), and (including ) (total of 12 species); the first three genera are also found in Vanuatu (total of four species). None of the... -
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Clusia chuj (Clusiaceae), a new tree species from the border between Guatemala and Mexico.
(Clusiaceae) is described and illustrated. This new taxon differs from the other species of the genus by being a tree up to 15 m tall with many-flowered inflorescences. The non-resiniferous, quadrangular flowers have thick, pale-yellow petals, and the androecium in the staminate flowers have 20 (– 30) free, short stamens....Luján, Manuel
Herbarium, Clusia chuj, New species, Central America, Neotropics, Taxonomy, and Tropical trees
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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... -
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Geographic patterns of seed dormancy strategies along latitudinal and climatic gradients, Japanese East Asian islands.
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Genome sequencing reveals the genetic architecture of heterostyly and domestication history of common buckwheat.
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A role for SETD2 loss in tumorigenesis through DNA methylation dysregulation.
SETD2-dependent H3 Lysine-36 trimethylation (H3K36me3) has been recently linked to the deposition of DNA methylation. is frequently mutated in cancer, however, the functional impact of loss and depletion on DNA methylation across cancer types and tumorigenesis is currently unknown. Here, we perform a pan-cancer analysis and show that both mutation...Javaid, Hira ; Barberis, Alessandro ; Chervova, Olga ; Nassiri, Isar ; Voloshin, Vitaly …
Machine learning biomarker, DNA methylation, H3K36me3, SETD2, and Renal cancer biomarker
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Herbarium specimen sequencing allows precise dating of Xanthomonas citri pv. citri diversification history.
Herbarium collections are an important source of dated, identified and preserved DNA, whose use in comparative genomics and phylogeography can shed light on the emergence and evolutionary history of plant pathogens. Here, we reconstruct 13 historical genomes of the bacterial crop pathogen pv. ( ) from infected herbarium specimens. Following... -
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Revision of Andropogon and Diectomis (Poaceae: Sacchareae) in Madagascar and the new Andropogon itremoensis from the Itremo Massif.
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Epitypification and neotypification: guidelines with appropriate and inappropriate examples.
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Naming and outline of Dothideomycetes–2014 including proposals for the protection or suppression of generic names.
Wijayawardene, Nalin N. ; Crous, Pedro W. ; Kirk, Paul M. ; Hawksworth, David L. ; Boonmee, Saranyaphat …
Article 59.1, One name, Dothideomycetes, Phylogeny, Ascomycota, and Pleomorphism
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Interactions among mycorrhizal fungi enhance the early development of a Mediterranean orchid.
Orchids depend on mycorrhizal fungi to germinate from seed. While multiple orchid mycorrhizal (OrM) taxa are often found associated with adult orchids, the relative contribution of particular OrM taxa to germination and early orchid development is poorly understood. We isolated 28 OrM fungi associated with the Mediterranean orchid and tested...Calevo, Jacopo ; Duffy, Karl J.
Priority effect, Anacamptis papilionacea, Rhizoctonias, Mycorrhiza, In vitro experiments, Fungal growth, and Mutualism
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Discovery and conservation of Monanthotaxis bali (Annonaceae) a new Critically Endangered (possibly extinct) montane forest treelet from Bali Ngemba, North West Region, Cameroon.
is the only known, solely montane (occurring solely above 2000 m alt.) species of the genus. It joins (Rwanda) and (Tanzania), two other species that can also occur above 2000 m alt. is an addition to the small number (28) of the tree species of the surviving montane forests of... -
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Phacidium and Ceuthospora (Phacidiaceae) are congeneric: taxonomic and nomenclatural implications.
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The application of the name Xylaria hypoxylon, based on Clavaria hypoxylon of Linnaeus.
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Rediscovery of the lost skink Proscelotes aenea and implications for conservation.
Biodiversity loss is recognized as a grand challenge of the twenty-first century but ascertaining when a species is “lost” can be incredibly difficult—since the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This may be a relatively easy task for large and conspicuous animals, but extremely difficult for those living...Puruleia, Ali ; Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristóvão ; Ernesto, Milagre ; Jamal, Abdurabe ; Amade, Iassine …
Skinks, Proscelotes aenea, Lumbo (Mozambique), Mozambique, and Threatened species
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Genetic structure of Leucojum aestivum L. in the Po Valley (N-Italy) drives conservation management actions.
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The forgotten giant of the Pacific: a review on giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don).
This article provides an overview over taxonomy, distribution, cultivation and use of giant taro, (L.) G.Don. The species belongs to the Araceae (aroid) family, which consists of 3700 species grouped into 107 genera. Among those species are several important crop species from tropical Asia and America. Giant taro, with a...Müller, Jonas V. ; Guzzon, Filippo
Araceae, Pacific Region, Alocasia macrorrhizos, Gene bank, Plant genetic resources, Neglected crop, Conservation, Aroids, and Breeding
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Proposals for consideration at IMC11 to modify provisions related solely to fungi in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants.
Seven proposals to modify the provisions of the (ICN) at the 11 International Mycological Congress (IMC11) in July 2018 had been received by the proscribed date of 1 March 2018. These proposals are formally presented together here. The topics addressed relate to the clarification of the meaning of “original material”...Parra, Luis A. ; Zamora, Juan C. ; Hawksworth, David L. ; Hibbett, David S. ; Kirk, Paul M. …
Typification, Author citations, Nomenclature, ICN, Sanctioned names, Identifiers, and DNA types
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Lectotypification of names in Parkia R.Br. (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade) for Africa and Madagascar.
Ten specific names plus those of three varieties, which refer to the four currently recognised species of in Africa and Madagascar ( A.Chev. (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don Welw. ex Oliv., R.Vig.), are listed. Their types are enumerated with lectotypes indicated where necessary and in a few cases, a second-step lectotypification...Hopkins, Helen C. F.
Fabaceae, Taxonomy., Parkia, Africa, Syntype, Mimosoideae, Madagascar, and Hugh Clapperton
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An updated description of Parkia barnebyana (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade) from Amazonian Venezuela and Brazil, and comparison with other species in sect. Parkia with erect capitula.
An updated description, including characters of the capitulum and fertile flowers, is provided for . Originally recorded from southern Venezuela, this small canopy tree from igapó (blackwater flooded forest) is now also known by two collections from north-western Brazil. The capitula are yellow and held erect, with the fertile flowers... -
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Validation of the name Cyperus atronervatus subsp. angustifolius (Cyperaceae).
The name subsp. was not validly published due to the omission of a Latin diagnosis. The name is validly published here.Xanthos, Martin
Ethiopia, Nomenclature, New subspecies, and Cyperus atronervatus subsp. angustifolius
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Conserving useful plants for a sustainable future: species coverage, spatial distribution, and conservation status within the Millennium Seed Bank collection.
A substantially rich diversity of the world’s recorded useful plants (UPs) is captured within the Millennium Seed Bank collection hosted by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, at Wakehurst, UK with 13,598 species (34%) belonging to 3696 genera and 325 families. This constitutes just over half of the total accessions and... -
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Tephrosia kindiana (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae), a new species from Guinea.
, a new plant species from Guinea, is described and illustrated. It is a shrub 90 – 120 cm tall, multi-stemmed from the base. The leaves have 5 – 13 oblanceolate leaflets; the inflorescence consists of solitary flowers in the leaf axils, or 2 – 3-flowered fascicles; the flowers are...Haba, Pepe M. ; Holt, Beverley J. ; van der Burgt, Xander M.
Tephrosia kindiana, Endangered, New species, Guinea, Africa, Mont Gangan, and Fabaceae
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A massive Critically Endangered cloud forest tree, Microcos rumpi (Grewiaceae) new to science from the Rumpi Hills, SW Region, Cameroon.
We describe (Grewiaceae) a massive new species to science from the Rumpi Hills of SW Region Cameroon, a proposed Tropical Important Plant Area. Confined on current evidence to submontane forest, the species is threatened by expanding habitat clearance for farms and is assessed as Critically Endangered. A large tree, attaining... -
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Genome resources for underutilised legume crops: genome sizes, genome skimming and marker development.
Underutilised crops suffer from under-investigation relative to more mainstream crops, but often possess improved stress tolerance and/or nutrition, making them potentially important for breeding programmes in the context of climate change and an expanding human population. Developing basic genome resources for underutilised crops may therefore catalyse analyses to facilitate their...