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Pteris madhusoodananii (Pteridaceae), a new fern species from India

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Pteris madhusoodananii sp. nov. (Pteridaceae), from the Kolli hills of Eastern Ghats, India, is described. The new taxon is morphologically distinct, characterized by a unique lamina texture and coloration, specific pinna‐pinnule architecture and distinct spore micromorphology.
Kalathil Sethumadhavan Abhilash   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Additions to the Acanthaceae of the Flora of Tropical East Africa: two new species from northern Kenya

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
The new species Barleria kulalensis I.Darbysh. & Q.Luke and Dicliptera huriensis I.Darbysh. & Q.Luke are described and illustrated and their extinction risk is assessed provisionally. The former is based on Barleria sp. G of the Flora of Tropical East Africa (FTEA), with recent field observation and collection of this species from the foothills of ...
Iain Darbyshire, Quentin Luke
wiley   +1 more source

Low‐cost observations and experiments return a high value in plant phenology research

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, 2020
Plant ecologists in the Anthropocene are tasked with documenting, interpreting, and predicting how plants respond to environmental change. Phenology, the timing of seasonal biological events including leaf‐out, flowering, fruiting, and leaf senescence ...
Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mazus dabieshanensis sp. nov. (Mazaceae) from eastern China

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Mazus dabieshanensis, a newly described species endemic to the Dabieshan Mountains in eastern China, is illustrated and described. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences consistently demonstrate that this new species forms a stable clade with other Mazus species characterized by a pubescent ovary. Morphologically,
Rui Tong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vegetative and reproductive phenology of Aquilaria malaccensis Lam. (Agarwood) in Cachar District, Assam, India

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
Aquilaria malaccensis Lam., a threatened tree commonly called agarwood, is emerging as one of the most promising commercially important aromatic species in the world.
Birkhungur Borogayary   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A new combination in Strophopappus (Asteraceae, Vernonieae, Lepidaploinae)

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Revisions of herbarium collections reveal a new combination in Strophopappus (Asteraceae, Vernonieae, Lepidaploinae). Strophopappus comprises nine species occurring in South America, eight of which are endemic to Brazil. Currently, Vernonia riedeliana is treated as a synonym of Strophopappus bicolor.
Danielle Remor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pavonia fretensis sp. nov. (Malvaceae) from the Horn of Africa hotspot

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
The new species Pavonia fretensis is described, illustrated by photographs and mapped. It occurs in coastal localities on both sides of the Bab al Mandab Strait and is known from southern Yemen, Eritrea and northwestern Somalia. The species differs from Pavonia rotundifolia from eastern Ethiopia and northern and central Somalia by having stellate ...
Mats Thulin, Othman S. S. Al‐Hawshabi
wiley   +1 more source

The relative roles of local climate adaptation and phylogeny in determining leaf-out timing of temperate tree species

open access: yesForest Ecosystems, 2017
Background Leaf out times of temperate forest trees are a prominent determinant of global carbon dynamics throughout the year. Abiotic cues of leaf emergence are well studied but investigation of the relative roles of shared evolutionary history ...
Elsa Desnoues   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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