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Browsing Plant Science by Type "Article"
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(International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2010-04)Article 36.1 in the International code of botanical nomenclature requires that, as from 1 January 1935, all names of new plant taxa (algae and fossils excepted) must be accompanied by a Latin description or diagnosis ...
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(Elsevier (open access), 2011-08)Abrus kaokoensis Swanepoel & H.Kolberg, a woody subshrub, is described as a new species. It is only known from the vicinity of the Kunene River and the Baynes Mountains in the Kaokoveld Centre of Endemism, Namibia. Its ...
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(International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2011-06)The arguments towards resolving the Acacia nomenclatural controversy put forth by Thiele & al. (2011) are reviewed and rebutted. We argue that a truly pragmatic and, moreover, defensible and equitable alternative to ...
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(International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2010-08)This paper briefly reports on the developments surrounding the Acacia name conservation controversy since the Nomenclature Section meeting at the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress at Vienna in 2005. Actions taken ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-01)In South Africa, the antimicrobial activity of many indigenous plants has been investigated. In general, studies have focused on planktonic bacteria, with less attention given to bacterial biofilms. Many organisms, however, ...
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(Missouri Botanical Garden Press, 2011-07-15)The African Plants Initiative (API) was conceived as a web-based, electronic venture that would provide rapid access to images of type specimens of African plant names. This soon grew to also encompass images of living ...
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(International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2010-04)Given the ongoing and often destructive impact of humans on the natural environment, the need for sound and robust taxonomies has become critically important (see for example Godfray & Knapp, 2004). The difficulty with ...
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(National Botanical Institute, 2011-01)The genus Agave L. has long been recognized as invasive in southern Africa, and until recently was thought to be the only one of eight genera in the Agavaceae (Verhoek 1998) to have become regionally naturalized (Smith ...
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(British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2011)The Mexican Agave americana L. subsp. americana var. expansa (Jacobi) Gentry, a distinctive variety of the widely cultivated, blueleaved century plant, is here recorded as having become established in South Africa. A ...
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(Academic Journals, 2013-04-10)Conventional banana breeding for pest and disease resistance is a very difficult and slow process due to the limited sources of resistance, sterility of cultivated banana varieties, high polyploidy levels, long cropping ...
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(International Society for Horticultural Science, 2016)Tree grids and tree rings pose certain challenges to the designer of landscapes especially designing hard landscapes such as pavements, parking areas and roadsides. One challenge is insufficient knowledge of lateral ...
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(National Botanical Institute, 2009)The taxa belonging to the genus Aloe published in Synopsis methodica stirpium horti regii taurinensis (Allioni 1760) and in Auctarium ad synopsim methodicam stirpium horti regii taurinensis (Allioni 1773) were examined. ...
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(British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2009)Two species of Aloe L., Aloe vera (L.) Burm.f. and A. arborescens Mill. have been recorded as naturalised in Portugal: A. vera as an occasional escape along the Algarve in the south, and A. arborescens from central coastal ...
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(British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2012)Aloe huntleyana Van Jaarsv. & Swanepoel is named from the Kaokoveld. It belongs to a group of five closely related species from southern Angola, but immediately distinguished by its leaves which remain persistent along ...
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(National Botanical Institute, 2009)Botanical exploration of Angola was virtually impossible during the almost three-decade-long civil war. With more areas becoming accessible, there is, however, a revived interest in the flora of this country. A total of ...
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(British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2012)Although morphologically variable and widely distributed in southern Africa, Aloe maculata All. is well defined by a suite of characters that includes maculate (spotted) leaves, flattopped inflorescences and uniformly ...
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(British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2010)A new species of leptoaloe, Aloe nicholsii Gideon F.Sm. & N.R.Crouch is described from the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The species shows affinities with Aloe kraussii Baker, but can be readily distinguished ...
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(British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2011)A new species of Aloe L., Aloe sharoniae N.R.Crouch & Gideon F.Sm., is recognised from northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Swaziland. This taxon was previously known as A. cooperi Baker subsp. pulchra Glen ...
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(Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2016)The natural hybrid between Aloe arborescens Mill. and A. chortolirioides A.Berger var. chortolirioides (Asphodelaceae) is here formally described as a nothospecies, A. ×inopinata Gideon F.Sm., N.R.Crouch & Oosth. The ...
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(National Botanical Institute, 2011)A catalogue of the flowering plants of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea) is presented. Flowering plant diversity figures are updated to: 135 families (20 introduced), 624 genera (172 introduced), 1 104 ...
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