The establishment of baseline IUCN Red List assessments for plants is a crucial step in conservation planning. Nowhere is this more important than in biodiversity hotspots that are subject to significant anthropogenic pressures, such as Madagascar. Here, all Madagascar palm species are assessed using the IUCN Red List categories and criteria, version 3.1. Our results indicate that 83% of the 19...

A 50 years old male patient to referred to our clinic for multiple hard diffused lesions on palms, plantars and penis. The Genesis of the problem goes back to 10 years earlier. The lesions appeared first on the soles and gradually new lesions appeared on the palms and eventually on the penis, so that stretching and contraction of the fingers and toes has become painful. During the last 6 years,...

Detection of basal stem rot (BSR) by Ganoderma of oil palms was based on foliar symptoms and production of basidiomata. Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays-Polyclonal Antibody (ELISA-PAB) and PCR have been proposed as early detection methods for the disease. These techniques are complex, time consuming and have accuracy limitations. An ergosterol method was developed which correlated well with t...

Volume 85, Number 8 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 811 A 30-year-old woman presented with a nonpruritic vesicular eruption on the palms that began one week earlier. One day before the rash developed, the patient had a burning, tingling sensation in the same area. She did not have a fever or other systemic symptoms. The review of systems was unremarkable, and she was not pregnant. Th...

Answer: E A 72-year-old male of Caucasian descent was referred for consideration of systemic therapy after receiving a diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). His past medical history was unremarkable with no comorbidities and he was not on any other medications. Computer tomography (CT) scan revealed multifocal HCC, and a biopsy of which confirmed HCC. There was no underlying cirrhosis or...

Aquagenic keratoderma (AK) or aquagenic wrinklingis a rare palmoplantar skin disease. It is sporadic orhereditary condition. It appears in childhood or youngadulthood and it is seen as multiple asymptomaticsmall shiny papules on the peripheral margin ofpalms and/or soles after submersion in water. Thepathogenesis and etiology of ASA remains unclear.Drugs sometimes trigger AK. Herein, we present...

A 40-year-old white Caucasian woman presented with a 20-year history of asymptomatic lesions on palmoplantar regions. Physical examination revealed numerous keratotic papules with crateriform holes on the palms (Figure 1) and yellow pits over the areas of soles exposed to pressure (Figure 2). Her father reported the same skin signs but he was less severely affected. The patient displayed no sys...

The patient was a 6-year-old girl with no past history of interest. She was seen for asymptomatic skin lesions that had appeared 2 weeks earlier on the palms of the hands. The history revealed that the lesions first appeared 15 days after the start of the summer holidays, coinciding with the beginning of prolonged, daily leisure activities in a family swimming pool. The girl had not had any pre...

Abstract Functional traits play a key role in driving plant community effects on ecosystem function. We examined nine functional various palm (Arecaceae) species and their relationships with moisture, tree-fall gaps, slope, forest type at 29 transects (500×5 m) the northeastern region of Colombian Amazon. Redundancy analysis mean trait values within plot weighted by abundance Pearson correlatio...