New names for three African Acanthaceae

Origin of African Physacanthus (Acanthaceae) via Wide Hybridization

Gene flow between closely related species is a frequent phenomenon that is known to play important roles in organismal evolution. Less clear, however, is the importance of hybridization between distant relatives. We present molecular and morphological evidence that support origin of the plant genus Physacanthus via "wide hybridization" between members of two distantly related lineages in the la...

some new leads for human african trypanosomiasis (african sleeping sickness)

New Mineral Names

The new mineral, the iron analogue of monticellite, occurs in melilite-nephelinite Iava from Mt. Shaheru, Belgian Congo, associated with melilite, nepheline, clinopyroxene, kalsilite, gdtzenite, combeite, sodalite, magnetite, perovskite, apatite, hornblende, biotite, and an unident i f ied mineral . Analysis gave SiO2 32.77,TiO20.23, AIzOa0.26, Fe2Oa 0.66, FeO 29 34, MnO 1.65, MgO 4.95, CaO 29....

New Mineral Names

1Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di degli Studi di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso, 35-10125 Torino, Italy 2Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Botticelli, 23-20133 Milano, Italy 3Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119071, Russia 4Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 1-26 Earth Sciences Building, University ...

Phlogacanthus yangtsekiangensis, a new combination in Chinese Acanthaceae

The genus Cystacanthus was established by Anderson (1867: 457) and placed in tribe Ruellieae Dumortier (1829: 23) when published. In fact, it is closely related to Phlogacanthus Nees von Esenbeck (1832: 76, 99) and differs only in the corolla shape and indumentum. Thus, many authors merged Cystacanthus with Phlogacanthus (Benoist 1935, Imlay 1939, Brummit 1992, Mabberley 2008). But it was still...