Ebook: The Biodiversity of African Plants: Proceedings XIVth AETFAT Congress 22–27 August 1994, Wageningen, The Netherlands

The book includes papers on monographs and databases, on diversity of succulents, on various regions such as savannas, lowland rain forests and arid regions, on ecology and conservation, on generic delimitations in flowering plants, and on glacial forest refuges that influence the pattern of present-day floristic composition. Some reports on floral biology and the uses of African plants conclude these proceedings. The book is intended for readers in all disciplines of botany, vegetation science, forestry and nature management in Africa.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Monographs, databases and biodiversity conservation....Pages 3-9
Conspectus of the vascular plants of Madagascar: a taxonomic and conservation electronic database....Pages 10-17
Computerisation of the East African Herbarium: development of a regional plant information service....Pages 18-31
Plants of southern Africa database....Pages 32-32
Uses, chromosome number and distribution of Solanum species in Uganda....Pages 33-37
The plants of Pehr Forsskal’s Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica....Pages 38-39
Enumeration of the flowering plants of tropical Africa....Pages 40-41
Front Matter....Pages 42-46
Biodiversity of arid islands in tropical Africa: the succulents of inselbergs....Pages 47-47
Patterns and characteristics of the flora of the Succulent Karoo Biome, southern Africa....Pages 49-57
Diversification in an arid world: the Mesembryanthemaceae....Pages 58-72
Tubers and bulbs as an adaptive strategy in the Kalahari....Pages 73-86
New collections of Mesembryanthema in South African grasslands....Pages 87-87
Front Matter....Pages 88-91
Centres of plant diversity in Africa....Pages 92-97
Mapping plant biodiversity on Mount Cameroon....Pages 99-99
Les Legumineuses Mimosoidees ombrophiles de basse altitude africaines et malgaches: biodiversite et repartition....Pages 101-109
Biodiversite morphogenetique, exemples des plantes plagiotropes....Pages 110-120
Analyse de la biodiversite vegetale dans la Foret des Abeilles, Gabon....Pages 121-130
Apercu sur les groupements secondaires a Marantaceae, Zingiberaceae et Costaceae de la Foret des Abeilles (Gabon)....Pages 131-139
Front Matter....Pages 140-144
Utilisation de la methode du transect en vue de l’etude de la biodiversite dans la Reserve de Faune du Dja (Cameroun)....Pages 145-149
Structure du peuplement des Pteridophytes d’une foret ombrophile a Madagascar: reactions a un stress de nature anthropique....Pages 99-99
Front Matter....Pages 150-154
The subcanopy flora in the dynamics of the Kalahari Thornveld....Pages 155-160
Plant species diversity of West African inselbergs....Pages 161-161
Biodiversity in three traditional groves in the Guinea savanna, Ghana....Pages 163-179
Biodiversity of the Maputaland Centre....Pages 180-187
Les Eriocaulaceae et leurs habitats dans les savanes africaines....Pages 188-197
Flora and vegetation of Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal....Pages 198-207
Inventory and conservation of economic plant genetic resources in Kenya rangeland: a case study of Turkana district....Pages 208-213
The floristic status of grasses of the South Luangwa national park and the Lupande area....Pages 214-219
Les facies a Andropogon pseudapricus des groupements post-culturaux et des savanes arbustives du Nord-Benin: dissemblance floristique et caracteres communs....Pages 220-223
Front Matter....Pages 224-230
A floristic classification of the indigenous forests of Transkei, South Africa....Pages 231-238
Conservation status of mopane woodlands in Malawi: a case study of Mua-Tsanya Forest Reserve....Pages 239-239
Deforestation in southern Cote d’Ivoire: a high-resolution remote sensing approach....Pages 241-249
Plant biodiversity conservation in Kenya: the plant conservation and propagation unit of the East African Herbarium - a case study....Pages 250-258
An ecological and ethnobotanical study of wild or spontaneous coffee, Coffea arabica in Ethiopia....Pages 259-266
Implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity for cooperation in botanical research....Pages 267-276
Preliminary study of threatened plants of Mozambique....Pages 277-294
Conservation and in vitro propagation of rare Kenyan Orchidaceae, a common goal for conservation and horticulture....Pages 295-305
Conservation priorities in the arid and semi-arid lands: the case of the hilltop forests of Kenya....Pages 306-309
Front Matter....Pages 310-312
Forest management systems to sustain resource use and biodiversity: examples from the southern Cape, South Africa....Pages 313-316
How gallery forest turns into savanna: an example from Senegal....Pages 239-239
Similarity of nickel distribution in leaf tissue of two distantly related hyperaccumulating species....Pages 317-322
Implications of changes in vegetation in Pandero, Murchison Falls Park, Uganda....Pages 323-328
The conservation status of the genus Saintpaulia in Kenya....Pages 329-330
Floristic composition of Gara Muleta and Kundudo mountains, south-eastern Ethiopia: implications for the conservation of biodiversity....Pages 331-335
Front Matter....Pages 336-340
Monophyly: a criterion for generic delimitation, with special reference to Leguminosae....Pages 341-344
In defence of paraphyletic taxa....Pages 345-350
Generic delimitations in African groups which also have wide distributions outside Africa....Pages 351-351
Problems with generic delimitation and subdivision in a large genus, Barleria (Acanthaceae)....Pages 353-370
Generic Delimitation and Relationships in the Tribe Hildebrandtieae (Convolvulaceae)....Pages 371-384
The Problem of Generic Delimitation when Conflict Exists between Molecular and Morphological Data....Pages 385-392
Generic Delimitation in the Palms of Madagascar....Pages 393-408
Les Delimitations Des Genres Chez les Caesalpinioideae Africaines (Detarieae et Amherstieae) (1957–1994)....Pages 409-420
A New Circumscription of the Genus Dolichos (Leguminosae)....Pages 421-432
Generic Delimitation of Subfamily Cassinoideae (Celastraceae) in Africa....Pages 433-442
Generic delimitation of Lasiodiscus (Rhamnaceae)....Pages 443-455
A study on microsporogenesis and ovule morphology in tropical African Anthericaceae and Asphodelaceae....Pages 456-458
Front Matter....Pages 459-463
On the position of the genus Pergularia (Asclepiadaceae)....Pages 464-471
Taxonomic studies of the genus Sansevieria (Dracaenaceae)....Pages 472-476
Generic concepts in Bidens and Coreopsis (Compositae): an overview....Pages 477-480
The taxonomy of the genus Fuirena (Cyperaceae) in East Africa....Pages 351-351
The plant family Apocynaceae in East Africa....Pages 481-488
Provisional generic delimitation in the Haumaniastrum/Acrocephalus complex (Labiatae)....Pages 489-492
Leaf anatomy and generic delimitations in South African Amaryllidaceae....Pages 493-498
Front Matter....Pages 499-503
Le cadre paleoenvironnemental des refuges forestiers africains: quelques donnees et hypotheses....Pages 504-506
Les Rinorea comme indicateurs des grands types forestiers du Cameroun....Pages 507-512
Changes in forest composition over the last 4000 years in the Ituri basin, Zaire....Pages 513-516
Geography of African Rubiaceae with reference to glacial rain forest refuges....Pages 517-517
Patterns of endemism in the woody flora of north-east and east Africa....Pages 519-535
Begonias and African rain forest refuges: general aspects and recent progress....Pages 536-544
Saprophytic flowering plants of Mount Cameroon....Pages 545-560
Caesalpinioideae and the study of forest refuges in central Africa....Pages 564-581
Rain forest refugia in Liberia....Pages 582-601
Front Matter....Pages 602-611
The one-to-one species specificity of the Ficus-Agaoninae mutualism: how casual?....Pages 612-617
Sex expression in Canthium mundianum (Rubiaceae)....Pages 618-623
Difficulties with cross-pollinating five cowpea lines: technique development....Pages 624-628
Front Matter....Pages 629-629
Introduction to the symposium Uses of African plants....Pages 631-638
African wild plants with rootstocks reported to be eaten raw: the Monocotyledons, part III....Pages 639-649
Utilization and conservation status of wild food plants in Kenya....Pages 650-655
Strategies for enhancement of utilization potential of edible woody forest species of south-eastern Nigeria....Pages 656-660
The economic importance and research needs for Uapaca in Malawi....Pages 661-661
Diversity of medicinal plants in West African habitats....Pages 663-664
Misuses and abuses in self-medication with medicinal plants: the case of Erythrophleum in Ghana....Pages 665-677
Les plantes antidiarrheiques chez les Sundi de la sous-prefecture de Kindamba (Congo)....Pages 678-683
Medicinal uses of plants from Guinea-Bissau....Pages 684-695
Rwenzori Mountain Forest non-timber products and people....Pages 696-703
Plantes medicinales utilisees par les Pygmees (Mbute) pour combattre le paludisme dans la zone de Mambasa, Ituri, Zaire....Pages 704-713
Medicinal plants of the Marachi people of Kenya....Pages 714-718
Vegetation et plantes alimentaires de la region de la Sangha (Nord-Congo)....Pages 719-721
Etude des effets des plantes molluscicides de la flore naturelle du Burundi sur Biomphalaria pfeifferi, hote intermediaire de la bilharziose....Pages 722-726
L’homme et l’igname au Congo....Pages 727-731
Medicinal plants used during ante- and post-natal periods and in early infant care in Busoga....Pages 732-740
Front Matter....Pages 741-746
Confusion de deux taxons specifiques ou subspecifiques au sein du genre Borassus en Afrique de l’Ouest....Pages 747-753
Rheophytes of Ghana....Pages 754-756
Progress of the Cape Verde Flora....Pages 757-760
Front Matter....Pages 761-767
Biodiversity in the flora of Egypt....Pages 768-770
Some aspects of the biodiversity of the weed flora in the farmlands of Egypt....Pages 771-771
Orchidaceae du district phytogeographique du Haut-Katanga (Zaire): biodiversite et endemisme....Pages 773-779
Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea....Pages 780-782
Floristics of Transkei sandstone forests (South Africa)....Pages 783-784
Seed and seedling morphology of Entada,a study of Zambian species....Pages 771-771
Developpements recents de l’Herbier de Dakar....Pages 785-787
Tree-climbing on a free rope....Pages 788-794
Back Matter....Pages 795-801
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