New Species and New Records of Zingiberaceae and Costaceae from Tropical East Africa

Flower morphological diversity in Aframomum (Zingiberaceae) from Africa – the importance of distinct floral types with presumably specific pollinator associations, differential habitat adaptations and allopatry in speciation and species maintenance

“…Lateral hairs in the floral tube might contribute to capillary upward transport of nectar in the corolla tube) and have been reported in a similar position in the related genus Etlingera by Poulsen (2006) but apparently without the same narrowing of the tube that occurs in Aframomum.…”

“…Voucher specimens of these are deposited at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E). For a further 38 species morphological and distributional information was taken from the literature ( (Dhetchuvi 1993, Dhetchuvi 1995, Dhetchuvi & Fischer 2006, Dhetchuvi et al 2011, Hallé 1967, Harris et al 2000, Harris & Wortley submitted, Hepper 1967, Koechlin 1964, Koechlin 1965, Lock & Hall 1973, Lock & Hall 1975, Lock 1976, Lock et al 1977, Lock 1978a, Lock 1978b, Lock 1978c, Lock 1979, Lock 1980, Lock 1984, Lock 1985, Poulsen & Lock 1997. Additional digital colour photographs for eleven of these 38 species were available.…”

Three new species of Uvariodendron (Annonaceae) from coastal East Africa in Kenya and Tanzania

“…Despite the completion of the Flora of East Africa series (Beentje 2015), East Africa still needs further botanical exploration (Sosef et al 2017). Indeed, from animals (Huber and Warui 2012) to plants (Poulsen and Lock 1997;Friis et al 2015), new taxa continue to be described.…”

Essential oil from seeds and husks ofAframomum corrorima from Ethiopia

“…2 It grows naturally at an altitude of 1700-2000 m on slightly shaded, more or less open places in forests. Although this plant grows in the wild, cultivation has recently been reported from some parts of the country.…”