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

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 Forsskål’s Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica....Pages 38-39
Enumeration of the flowering plants of tropical Africa....Pages 40-41
Thunberg, Hoffmann and the Phytographische Blätter ....Pages 42-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Biodiversity of arid islands in tropical Africa: the succulents of inselbergs....Pages 49-57
Patterns and characteristics of the flora of the Succulent Karoo Biome, southern Africa....Pages 58-72
Taxonomy and biogeography of the anomalous genus Wellstedia ....Pages 73-86
Diversification in an arid world: the Mesembryanthemaceae....Pages 87-87
Tubers and bulbs as an adaptive strategy in the Kalahari....Pages 88-91
New collections of Mesembryanthema in South African grasslands....Pages 92-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Centres of plant diversity in Africa....Pages 101-109
Mapping plant biodiversity on Mount Cameroon....Pages 110-120
Les Légumineuses Mimosoïdées ombrophiles de basse altitude africaines et malgaches: biodiversité et répartition....Pages 121-130
Biodiversité morphogénétique, exemples des plantes plagiotropes....Pages 131-139
Analyse de la biodiversité végétale dans la Forêt des Abeilles, Gabon....Pages 140-144
Aperçu sur les groupements secondaires à Marantaceae, Zingiberaceae et Costaceae de la Forêt des Abeilles (Gabon)....Pages 145-149
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Utilisation de la méthode du transect en vue de l’étude de la biodiversité dans la Réserve de Faune du Dja (Cameroun)....Pages 150-154
Structure du peuplement des Ptéridophytes d’une forêt ombrophile à Madagascar: réactions à un stress de nature anthropique....Pages 155-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
The subcanopy flora in the dynamics of the Kalahari Thornveld....Pages 163-179
Plant species diversity of West African inselbergs....Pages 180-187
Biodiversity in three traditional groves in the Guinea savanna, Ghana....Pages 188-197
Biodiversity of the Maputaland Centre....Pages 198-207
Les Eriocaulaceae et leurs habitats dans les savanes africaines....Pages 208-213
Flora and vegetation of Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal....Pages 214-219
Inventory and conservation of economic plant genetic resources in Kenya rangeland: a case study of Turkana district....Pages 220-223
The floristic status of grasses of the South Luangwa national park and the Lupande area....Pages 224-230
Les faciès à Andropogon pseudapricus des groupements post-culturaux et des savanes arbustives du Nord-Bénin: dissemblance floristique et caractères communs....Pages 231-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
A floristic classification of the indigenous forests of Transkei, South Africa....Pages 241-249
Conservation status of mopane woodlands in Malawi: a case study of Mua-Tsanya Forest Reserve....Pages 250-258
Deforestation in southern Côte d’Ivoire: a high-resolution remote sensing approach....Pages 259-266
Plant biodiversity conservation in Kenya: the plant conservation and propagation unit of the East African Herbarium - a case study....Pages 267-276
An ecological and ethnobotanical study of wild or spontaneous coffee, Coffea arabica in Ethiopia....Pages 277-294
Implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity for cooperation in botanical research....Pages 295-305
Preliminary study of threatened plants of Mozambique....Pages 306-309
Conservation and in vitro propagation of rare Kenyan Orchidaceae, a common goal for conservation and horticulture....Pages 310-312
Conservation priorities in the arid and semi-arid lands: the case of the hilltop forests of Kenya....Pages 313-316
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Forest management systems to sustain resource use and biodiversity: examples from the southern Cape, South Africa....Pages 317-322
How gallery forest turns into savanna: an example from Senegal....Pages 323-328
Molecular taxonomy of Saintpaulia rupicola and the genus Saintpaulia ....Pages 329-330
Similarity of nickel distribution in leaf tissue of two distantly related hyperaccumulating species....Pages 331-335
Implications of changes in vegetation in Pandero, Murchison Falls Park, Uganda....Pages 336-340
The conservation status of the genus Saintpaulia in Kenya....Pages 341-344
Floristic composition of Gara Muleta and Kundudo mountains, south-eastern Ethiopia: implications for the conservation of biodiversity....Pages 345-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Monophyly: a criterion for generic delimitation, with special reference to Leguminosae....Pages 353-370
In defence of paraphyletic taxa....Pages 371-384
Generic delimitations in African groups which also have wide distributions outside Africa....Pages 385-392
Problems with generic delimitation and subdivision in a large genus, Barleria (Acanthaceae)....Pages 393-408
Generic Delimitation and Relationships in the Tribe Hildebrandtieae (Convolvulaceae)....Pages 409-420
The Problem of Generic Delimitation when Conflict Exists between Molecular and Morphological Data....Pages 421-432
Generic Delimitation in the Palms of Madagascar....Pages 433-442
Les Délimitations Des Genres Chez les Caesalpinioideae Africaines (Detarieae et Amherstieae) (1957–1994)....Pages 443-455
A New Circumscription of the Genus Dolichos (Leguminosae)....Pages 456-458
Generic Delimitation of Subfamily Cassinoideae (Celastraceae) in Africa....Pages 459-463
Leaf Anatomy of the African Genera of Commelinaceae: Anthericopsis and Murdannia ....Pages 464-471
Generic delimitation of Lasiodiscus (Rhamnaceae)....Pages 472-476
A study on microsporogenesis and ovule morphology in tropical African Anthericaceae and Asphodelaceae....Pages 477-480
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
On the position of the genus Pergularia (Asclepiadaceae)....Pages 481-488
Taxonomic studies of the genus Sansevieria (Dracaenaceae)....Pages 489-492
Generic concepts in Bidens and Coreopsis (Compositae): an overview....Pages 493-498
The taxonomy of the genus Fuirena (Cyperaceae) in East Africa....Pages 499-503
The plant family Apocynaceae in East Africa....Pages 504-506
Provisional generic delimitation in the Haumaniastrum/Acrocephalus complex (Labiatae)....Pages 507-512
Leaf anatomy and generic delimitations in South African Amaryllidaceae....Pages 513-516
Front Matter....Pages 517-517
Le cadre paléoenvironnemental des refuges forestiers africains: quelques données et hypothèses....Pages 519-535
Les Rinorea comme indicateurs des grands types forestiers du Cameroun....Pages 536-544
Changes in forest composition over the last 4000 years in the Ituri basin, Zaire....Pages 545-560
Geography of African Rubiaceae with reference to glacial rain forest refuges....Pages 564-581
Patterns of endemism in the woody flora of north-east and east Africa....Pages 582-601
Begonias and African rain forest refuges: general aspects and recent progress....Pages 602-611
Saprophytic flowering plants of Mount Cameroon....Pages 612-617
Caesalpinioideae and the study of forest refuges in central Africa....Pages 618-623
Rain forest refugia in Liberia....Pages 624-628
Front Matter....Pages 629-629
Floral structure and pollination in Pelargonium ....Pages 631-638
The one-to-one species specificity of the Ficus -Agaoninae mutualism: how casual?....Pages 639-649
Sex expression in Canthium mundianum (Rubiaceae)....Pages 650-655
Difficulties with cross-pollinating five cowpea lines: technique development....Pages 656-660
Front Matter....Pages 661-661
Introduction to the symposium Uses of African plants....Pages 663-664
African wild plants with rootstocks reported to be eaten raw: the Monocotyledons, part III....Pages 665-677
Utilization and conservation status of wild food plants in Kenya....Pages 678-683
Strategies for enhancement of utilization potential of edible woody forest species of south-eastern Nigeria....Pages 684-695
The economic importance and research needs for Uapaca in Malawi....Pages 696-703
Diversity of medicinal plants in West African habitats....Pages 704-713
Misuses and abuses in self-medication with medicinal plants: the case of Erythrophleum in Ghana....Pages 714-718
An alternative to Eucalyptus: Terminalia sericea ....Pages 719-721
Les plantes antidiarrhéiques chez les Sundi de la sous-préfecture de Kindamba (Congo)....Pages 722-726
Medicinal uses of plants from Guinea-Bissau....Pages 727-731
Rwenzori Mountain Forest non-timber products and people....Pages 732-740
Plantes médicinales utilisées par les Pygmées (Mbute) pour combattre le paludisme dans la zone de Mambasa, Ituri, Zaire....Pages 741-746
Medicinal plants of the Marachi people of Kenya....Pages 747-753
Végétation et plantes alimentaires de la région de la Sangha (Nord-Congo)....Pages 754-756
Etude des effets des plantes molluscicides de la flore naturelle du Burundi sur Biomphalaria pfeifferi , hôte intermédiaire de la bilharziose....Pages 757-760
L’homme et l’igname au Congo....Pages 761-767
Medicinal plants used during ante- and post-natal periods and in early infant care in Busoga....Pages 768-770
Front Matter....Pages 771-771
Confusion de deux taxons spécifiques ou subspécifiques au sein du genre Borassus en Afrique de l’Ouest....Pages 773-779
Rheophytes of Ghana....Pages 780-782
Progress of the Cape Verde Flora....Pages 783-784
Front Matter....Pages 771-771
Biodiversity in the flora of Egypt....Pages 785-787
Some aspects of the biodiversity of the weed flora in the farmlands of Egypt....Pages 788-794
Orchidaceae du district phytogéographique du Haut-Katanga (Zaïre): biodiversité et endémisme....Pages 795-801
Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea....Pages 802-804
Floristics of Transkei sandstone forests (South Africa)....Pages 805-808
Seed and seedling morphology of Entada ,a study of Zambian species....Pages 809-814
Développements récents de l’Herbier de Dakar....Pages 815-818
Tree-climbing on a free rope....Pages 819-821
Back Matter....Pages 823-861