Taxonomic revision of the threatened African genus Pseudohydrosme Engl. (Araceae), with P. ebo, a new, critically endangered species from Ebo, Cameroon [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 This is the first revision in more than 100 years of the African genus Pseudohydrosme, formerly considered endemic to Gabon. Closely related to Anchomanes, Pseudohydrosme is distinct from Anchomanes because of its 2-3-locular ovary (vs.
Martin Cheek +2 more
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Microcos magnifica (Sparrmanniaceae) a new species of cloudforest tree from Cameroon [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Although many new species to science have been discovered from thousands of specimens resulting from botanical inventories to support conservation management in Cameroon in recent years, additional species remain to be formally evaluated ...
Martin Cheek
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Revision of the Afro-Madagascan genus Costularia (Schoeneae, Cyperaceae): infrageneric relationships and species delimitation [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 A recent molecular phylogenetic study revealed four distinct evolutionary lineages in the genus Costularia s.l. (Schoeneae, Cyperaceae, Poales). Two lineages are part of the Oreobolus clade of tribe Schoeneae: the first being a much-reduced genus ...
Isabel Larridon +3 more
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Kindia (Pavetteae, Rubiaceae), a new cliff-dwelling genus with chemically profiled colleter exudate from Mt Gangan, Republic of Guinea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 A new genus Kindia (Pavetteae, Rubiaceae) is described with a single species, Kindia gangan, based on collections made in 2016 during botanical exploration of Mt Gangan, Kindia, Republic of Guinea in West Africa.
Martin Cheek +8 more
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Ecosystems and People, 2023 Invasive alien plant species (IAPS) frequently offer both ecosystem services and disservices to rural communities with high livelihood dependency on local landscapes. However, biocultural relationships with IAPS may go deeper than just provisioning uses,
O. Wootton, C. M. Shackleton
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Specificity of the northern Velebit speleonymy
Magistra Iadertina, 2022 Based on archival research and reference literature, the paper presents a toponymic treatment of the speleonymy of northern Velebit. Special attention is paid to the names coined at the end of the 20th century, when, following a strong interest in ...
Ivica Mataija
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Company naming strategies in the Italian interior design industry [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2020 The study focuses on naming etymology and semantics used by Italian interior design companies (manufacturers of furniture, light fixtures and accessories), represented in the Russian market.
Daria A. Shevliakova
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In The Context of Turkish Culture Animal Symbolism in Heterodox Dervishes / Türk Kültürü Bağlamında Heterodoks Dervişlerde Hayvan Sembolizmi [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2022 The belief systems of societies that have continued since mythical periods exhibit their vestiges in newly accepted religions. The memories of the past and the mythical codes that have been placed in the subconscious of the Turkish society that ...
Meriç Harmancı
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Context concreteness for the second constituent slows down compound-word processing
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022 The present paper investigates the effects of valence, arousal, and concreteness norms produced in Warriner et al. [2013], Brysbaert et al. [2014], and Snefjella & Kuperman [2016] on English compounding.
Chariton Charitonidis
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Nouns Formed with -ism Suffix as a Type of Nominalization in Modern Russian Language
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021 In the article Russian nouns formed with -ism suffix, often containing borrowed roots from other Indo-European languages, are analyzed from the perspective of their syntactic function as nominalization. As nominalization regarded in linguistics as a type
Zhang Shuchun, Olga V. Kukushkina
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