Summary Tephrosia kindiana , a new plant species from Guinea, is described and illustrated. It shrub 90 – 120 cm tall, multi-stemmed the base. The leaves have 5 13 oblanceolate leaflets; inflorescence consists of solitary flowers in leaf axils, or 2 3-flowered fascicles; are orange 24 26 mm long. occurs wooded grassland on sandstone plateaus at 300 420 m elevation. Three localities known, up to...

Variation at the single-copy nuclear locus histone H3-D was surveyed in the diploid B-genome group of Glycine subgenus Glycine (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae), which comprises three named Australian species and a number of distinct but as yet not formally recognized taxa. A total of 23 alleles was identified in the 44 accessions surveyed. Only one individual was clearly heterozygous, which is not...

Derris trifoliata belongs to the family Fabaceae of the order Papilionoideae. D. trifoliata is used in local medicine in India as a stimulant, antispasmodic and counter-irritant, and against rheumatism, chronic paralysis and dysmenorrhoea. The bioactive principle present in the leaves of Derris trifoliata was isolated and characterized in the present study. The powdered leaves were repeatedly e...

Jimtrappea guyanensis gen. sp. nov., Castellanea pakaraimophila gen. sp. nov., and Costatisporus cyanescens gen. sp. nov. are described as new to science. These sequestrate, hypogeous fungi were collected in Guyana under closed canopy tropical forests in association with ectomycorrhizal (ECM) host tree genera Dicymbe (Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideae), Aldina (Fabaceae subfam. Papilionoideae),...