Abstract Purpose The aim of the study was to propose a phytoremediation-based approach toward proper utilization post-industrial, metal-contaminated bottom sediments. common ice plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. (Aizoaceae), an abiotic-stress tolerant, C3/CAM intermediate halophyte, tested for growth in substrates containing sediments and biological removal metal pollutants. In variant te...

The potential antioxidant effect ethanol induced liver damage was investigated using crude methanolic extract of the whole plant of Mollugo pentaphylla Linn. The standard drug used was ascorbic acid mg / kg/day. Serum cholesterol, triglycerides aspartate amino transferase (AST) and alanine amino transferase (ALT) levels were measured as antioxidant indicators. There was a significant reduction ...

Ruschieae is the largest tribe in the highly speciose subfamily Ruschioideae (Aizoaceae). A generic-level phylogeny for the tribe was recently produced, providing new insights into relationships between the taxa. Octopoma and Arenifera are woody shrubs with multilocular capsules and are distributed across the Succulent Karoo. Octopoma was shown to be polyphyletic in the tribal phylogeny, but co...

Comprising a land area of ca. 90,000 km2, less than one twentieth (5%) the land area of the southern African subcontinent, the Cape Floristic Region (CFR) is, for its size, one of the world’s richest areas of plant species diversity. A new synoptic flora for the Region has made possible an accurate reassessment of the flora, which has an estimated 9030 vascular plant species (68.7% endemic), of...

The Caryophyllales TEN is one of the Taxonomic Expert Networks for World Flora Online (WFO, worldfloraonline.org). It was initiated in 2011 with aim to create a global taxonomic synthesys angiosperm order (about 6% species). network currently includes about 170 scientists from 36 countries. first priority creating dynamic backbone using EDIT Platform Cybertaxonomy (cybertaxonomy.org). One key p...

Thirty-four chromosome counts are reported from populations in 20 species from Masafuera in the Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile. New species counts are in Abrotanella crassipes (2n = 18), Carpobrotus aequilaterus (n = 9), Coprosma pyrifolia (n = 22), Drimys confertifolia (n = ca. 43), Euphrasia Jormosissima (n = 44), Parietaria debilis (n = 8), and UrticaJernandeziana (n = ca. 11). A new chromoso...