1 Plant Ecology, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, 2 Department of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, 3 Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, 4 Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK, ...

A new species of Colocasia Schott, C. lihengiae C. L. Long et K. M. Liu, sp. nov., is described and illustrated. The species is restricted to the rainforest of Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan, China. Diagnostic morphological characters that distinguish the new species from the related species, C. fallax Schott, are discussed. Chromosome numbers (2n=28) were observed in plants of C. lihengiae c...

Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074 Hubei, China, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7239, USA, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Z€ urcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Faculty of Life and E...

Secretary of State, in a despatch to the viceroy, dated 28tli July last, states that Dr. J. Anderson reports the safe arrival in England of a large number of plants ; and that the plants already under the care of the officers of the Royal Botanical Garden at Edinburgh are in a satisfactory condition. Also that by the time Dr. Anderson was to leave for India, there was every hope he would bo pro...

Distribution data describing the current shea range were obtained from John Hall (University of Wales, Bangor); for details, see previous reports and Vitellaria paradoxa: a monograph (Hall et al., 1996). In 2010, these records were supplemented with shea plot data from Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana, and with the collection localities of herbarium specimens held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ...

Lessons From the Field Michael J. Balick is vice president for research and training and director of the Institute of Economic Botany at The New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, NY. Roberta Lee is medical director of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing and codirector of the Integrative Medical Fellowship of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing at Beth Israel Medical Center in New ...

a Key Lab of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Yunnan 666303, China b Ailaoshan Station for Subtropical Forest Ecosystem Research, Chinese Ecosystem Research Networks, Jingdong, Yunnan 676209, China c National Forest Ecosystem Research Station at Ailaoshan, Jingdong, Yunnan 676209, China d Center for Global Environmental Rese...

1 South China Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China 2 Forest and Landscape Denmark, Faculty of Life Sciences, Univ. of Copenhagen, Hørsholm Kongevej 11, 2970 Horsholm, Denmark 3 Depart. of Biological Sciences, State Univ. of New York – Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA Received: 30 August 2007 – Accepted: 29 October 2007 – Published: 12 November 2007 Co...