Abstract This study presents Paxilloboletus gen. nov., a new lamellate bolete genus represented by two tropical African species, africanus sp. nov. and latisporus Although the taxa strongly resemble Paxillus (Paxillaceae), they lack clamp connections form separate generic clade within Boletaceae phylogeny. The species are lookalikes, morphologically only separable their spore morphology. Descri...

The methanolic extract of the roots of Asparagus africanus Lam (Liliaceae) which contains mainly saponins and carbohydrate showed significant analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities (P<0.05) in the tail-flick/hot-plate test and egg albumen-induced rat paw oedema tests that were comparable to the test drugs (morphine 20 mg/kg and indomethacin 50 mg/kg respectively). These results indicate tha...

Widely distributed populations of the snapping shrimp, Alpheus floridanus Kinglsey, 1878, from the eastern Pacific and western and eastern Atlantic Ocean have long been suspected to represent different species due to extreme morphological variation among conspecifics. A companion study (Bracken-Grissom & Felder 2014) contains redescriptions of two western Atlantic species (A. floridanus Kingsle...