During study on vegetation diversity, 88 species of grasses and herbs were identified in 2005 and 2006 at Bara Nandara kho, Banswara (Rajasthan), India. Out of these, 14 species recorded as new arrival in the areas, when compared with the other existing literature of the region. These species are ...

Triumfetta semitriloba Jacq. (Tiliaceae) is a tropical weedy species with floral nectaries and glands located at the margins of the leaves. The objectives of this work were to describe the anatomy of these secretory structures and to analyze their exudates. Sucrose, glucose, and fructose were...

This work [date not given] was carried out in Senegal to determine the influence of the duration of fallow and of physicochemical components of soils on the distribution of endomycorrhizal fungal (Glomus sp., Scutellospora verrucosa and S. gregaria) spores and the mycorrhizal soil infectivity. The...

The departure rules from flower patches (flowering plants) used by bee pollinators of Triumfetta semitriloba were investigated during 1994 in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Flowering plants were distributed in well delimited clumps in 2 pasture areas (A1 and A2) and a forest gap (A3). Five solitary...

Two patches of Triumfetta semitriloba in abandoned pastures in Viçosa, southeastern Brazil, were investigated during March-May 1994. Ten plants/patch and 5 flowers/plant were randomly chosen for the following pollination tests: self pollination, bee [Apidae] control, control, a high load of...

The vascular plant flora of the Pitcairn Islands, located in the south-central Pacific Ocean, is described, based on extensive new collections made in 1991 and previously published records. Two vascular plants occur on Ducie Atoll; one (Pemphis acidula) is a new record. Sixty-three native vascular...

This paper provides an overview of some recent achievements in the area of production and utilization of fodder trees in East Africa. Most of the research work reviewed is part of the Agroforestry Research Network for Africa (AFRENA). In the sub-humid highlands the most common form of livestock...

In experiments in which E. formosana was made to feed on three weeds species, Elephantopus mollis, Malachra capitata and Triumfetta semitriloba suspected of being a virus reservoir of cadang-cadang disease of coconuts, phytotoxicity was evident in all species and was greatest in young plants and...

In Sierra Leone the chief insect pests of Citrus continue to be fruit-piercing Lepidoptera [cf. R.A.E., A, xviii, 98], of which the Noctuids, Achaea catocaloides, Gn., and Othreis fullonica, L., were the most important during 1932 The larvae of the former fed on the euphorbiaceous tree, Phyllanthis ...