Southern Africa is an important focal point of botanical and cultural diversity but only a few
plant species have hitherto become fully commercialised as medicinal products. In recent …

AIMS OF THE STUDY: Commercially important indigenous medicinal plants of southern
Africa are reviewed in the context of fundamental knowledge about their ethnobotany …

This chapter in Saliceae continues with short discussions of systematics and nomenclature,
subjects that remain unsettled in this family. Then, it introduces in general terms each genus …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Data on the relative importance and research status of
commercially relevant African medicinal plants are needed for developing new research …

AIM OF THE STUDY: Members of the Combretaceae family are widely traded in the
traditional medicine market in southern Africa. The family is also used for medicinal …

Sutherlandia frutescens (tribe Galegeae, Fabaceae), a popular plant in traditional medicine,
is indigenous to South Africa, Lesotho, southern Namibia and southeastern Botswana. It is …

This volume presents, for the first time, a comprehensive catalogue of the unusually rich, and
hitherto poorly known, botanical diversity of Angola. It also provides extensive lists of …

Data and information on exotic Kalanchoe taxa (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae)
provided in a range of floristic catalogues of regions and countries in Africa were collated …

A catalogue of the flowering plants of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea)
is presented. Flowering plant diversity figures are updated to: 135 families (20 introduced) …

Country‐wide surveys of lepidopteran stem borers in wild host plants were undertaken
between 2006 and 2009 in S outh A frica and 2005 and 2010 in M ozambique. A total of …