Rosidae, a clade of approximately 90 000 species of angiosperms, exhibits remarkable
morphological diversity and extraordinary heterogeneity in habitats and life forms. Resolving …

Species of the genus Saxicolella Engl.(Podostemaceae) are African rheophytes, restricted to
rapids and waterfalls as are all members of the family. Previously, Saxicolella sensu lato …

Main conclusion Plants lacking shoot apical meristem develop with unique body shapes,
suggesting rewiring of developmental genes. This loss of the meristem is likely influenced by …

Six new species of Inversodicraea (I. feika from Sierra Leone, I. liberia from Liberia, and I.
ebo, I. eladii, I. tchoutoi, and I. xanderi from Cameroon) are described as new to science in …

Lebbiea grandiflora (Podostemaceae), a rheophytic herb from the Sewa River rapids in
Sierra Leone, is described as a new species. It is the first new African genus of …

Inversodicraea, shown by previous workers to merit resurrection, is restored here, to include
all those species previously included in Ledermanniella subg. Phyllosma. The final seven …

Three new species of Inversodicraea (Podostemaceae), I. senei from the Memv'ele falls of
the Ntem River, Cameroon, I. tanzaniensis from the Ruhudji River near Lupembe, Southern …

Two new species of Inversodicraea, I. koukoutamba and I. tassing, both from the Republic of
Guinea, are described as new to science, increasing the number of species known in this …

Ledermanniella yiben Cheek is described from the Seli (Rokel) river bed at a single rapid to
be flooded by the proposed Yiben hydroelectric dam and reservoir in Sierra Leone. It is …

Aquatic plants are generally underrepresented in herbaria due to geographic bias, rarity of
species, and sampling bias towards terrestrial vascular plants. This constitutes a limitation to …