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Conservation status of species used in the UK herbal medicine industry

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Given the ongoing biodiversity crisis, sustainable use and management of medicinal plants is critical. We assessed the conservation status, threats and conservation actions of 298 species sold by UK suppliers to medical herbalists. We found that most species used are unevaluated, representing a gap in conservation knowledge, and of those with ...
Isabella Flowers, Jon C. Lovett, Christopher Hassall   +2 more
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Plants, people and their shared heritage: A comparative medicinal and wild food ethnobotany of Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians living in the Gjirokaster area, southern Albania

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina, Ani Bajrami, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman, Konstantinos Ntinas, Marjol Meço, Bledar Pulaj, Nektarios Aligiannis, Avni Hajdari, Andrea Pieroni   +9 more
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Caracterización de semillas de lupino (Lupinus mutabilis) sembrado en los Andes de Colombia Characterization properties of lupin (Lupinus mutabilis) seeds grown in the Colombian Andean region

Acta Agronómica, 2010
En este trabajo se identificaron las propiedades físicas, composicionales y fisicoquímicas de la semilla de Lupino (Lupinus mutabilis) cultivado en Nariño (Andes de Colombia). Su composición se determinó realizando análisis proximales de semilla completa,
Eduar Ortega-David, Aida Rodríguez, Arturo David, Ángel Zamora-Burbano   +3 more
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Completed plastome sequence of Sophora moorcroftiana, an endemic shrub to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
Sophora moorcroftiana, an endemic Fabaceae species occurred in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, China, has important economic value in local. Its completed plastome sequence is 148,930 bp in size, and comprises a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions of 23,787 ...
Huie Li, Lan Yang, Qian Li, Jiangrong Li
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Three New Species of Indigofera (Leguminosae) from China

, 2009
Three new species of Indigofera L (Leguminosae) are described from Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China. Indigofera shipingensis X. F. Gao, known only from a single specimen collected in 1961 from Shiping County, Yunnan, has unifoliolate leaves and is ...
Schrire, B, Gao, XF, Gao, XF, Chinese Acad Sci, Chengdu Inst Biol, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, Peoples R China.   +2 more
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REVISION OF CYCLOLOBIUM (LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE)

, 2002
Cyclolobium (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae-Millettieae) has traditionally comprised six species, but doubts have been expressed as to their distinctness.
M. C. WARWICK, R. T. PENNINGTON
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Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

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Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Regionalización y relaciones biogeográficas de la Península de Yucatán con base en los patrones de distribución de la familia Leguminosae

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2015
Investigador en Sistemática Vegetal con énfasis en las familia leguminosae, Icacinaceae y Droseraceae. Mi área geográfica de interés es la Península de Yucatán, México, Mesoamérica y en general los trópcios americanos.
Rodrigo Duno-de Stefano
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Notes on Leguminosae. II

Austrobaileya: A Journal of Plant Systematics, 1977
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +1 more source

A national crop wild relative checklist for Zimbabwe reveals edible crop wild relative diversity of regional and global importance

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Crop wild relatives (CWR) in Zimbabwe are reservoirs of beneficial agronomic traits, yet they remain under‐documented and poorly conserved. This study developed Zimbabwe's first national CWR checklist based on a conceptual framework combining floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical data, revealing over 2700 taxa, with nearly 1000 edible species ...
Kudakwashe Mutasa, Onismus Chipfunde, Christopher Chapano, Patience Chatukuta   +3 more
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