Many angiosperm families are distributed pantropically, yet for any given continent little is known about which lineages are ancient residents or recent arrivals. Here we use a comprehensive sampling of the pantropical sister pair Anacardiaceae and Burseraceae to assess the relative importance of continental vicariance, long-distance dispersal and niche-conservatism in generating its distinctiv...

Three new eriophyid species (Phyllocoptinae), Shevtchenkella denticulata sp. n., Notallus pestehae sp. n. and Echinacrus ruthenicus sp. n., were described from Eryngium thyrsoideum Boiss. (Apiaceae), Pistacia vera L. (Anacardiaceae) and Lycium ruthenicum Murray (Solanaceae), respectively. All the three new species were collected from southwest of the East Azerbaijan province, Iran in 2011. It i...

An ethnobotanical study was conducted in the Wechiau Community Hippopotamus Sanctuary area in Ghana, through interviews and quadrate studies, to investigate the range and abundance of species used in the treatment of malaria. Forty-one species belonging to 17 families were encountered during the study. Of the 17 families studied Leguminosae and Anacardiaceae predominated in terms of number of s...

rhus coriaria l. is known as sumac. r. coriaria extracts are important in drug development with numerous pharmacological reputations in the south-eastern anatolia, mediterranean area and western asia especially in iran. regarding the new multi-functional properties of r. coriaria and the related valuable ongoing reports, we were prompted to review the phytochemical and pharmacological propertie...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite markers were developed for Spondias radlkoferi to assess the impact of primate seed dispersal on the genetic diversity and structure of this important tree species of Anacardiaceae. • METHODS AND RESULTS Fourteen polymorphic loci were isolated from S. radlkoferi through 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing of genomic DNA. The number of alleles r...

Schinus terebinthifolia Raddi (Anacardiaceae) (Brazilian pepper tree) is a tree native to subtropical South America that was introduced into Africa as an ornamental plant. Globally, it regarded one of the world’s worst invasive trees. In has acquired seed-feeding wasp, Megastigmus transvaalensis (Hussey, 1956) (Hymenoptera: Torymidae). The wasp’s hosts are from Searsia F.A. Barkley genus (Anaca...

Abstract Anacardiaceae is an ecologically and economically important plant family of about 200 species in 32 genera the Neotropics. The particularly diverse leaf architecture fruit morphology, making it a model to study evolution structural diversity as correlates with lineage diversification. This primary reason 11 Neotropical are monotypic that so many recognized Anacardiaceae. economic value...