Author: Alain Campbell White
Publisher:
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Category : Asclepiadaceae
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: Carl August Lückhoff
Publisher:
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Category : Asclepiadaceae
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Stuart Max Walters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521420976
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 760

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Author: James Cullen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761603
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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The definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants, thoroughly updated to include the latest taxonomic knowledge.

Author: Focke Albers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642563708
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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The Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants represents the first comprehensive taxonomic treatment of succulents in thirty years. It covers over 9000 taxa of all succulents except Cactaceae. This volume on the Asclepiadaceae (milkweed family) presents all kinds of succulent plants from geophytic Raphionacme, leaf succulent Hoya to stem succulent Cynanchum and, of course, the popular stapeliads (carrion flowers). A total of 1119 species are included; of the 70 genera treated, 49 are covered in their entirety. The most species-rich assemblages are Ceropegia (lantern flowers) and Brachystelma. For the latter a complete generic treatment is presented for the first time. The handbook is devoted to a family famous for their outstandingly complex and beautiful flowers and is illustrated with 332 superb colour photos. Keys to genera are provided; for all accepted taxa, descriptions including typification and distributional data, full synonymy and literature references are given.

Author: Mary Gunn
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780869611296
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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This text gives biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.

Author: Madeleine De Wet
Publisher:
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Category : Asclepiadaceae
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Author: William G. D'Arcy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521480635
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Laura A. Foster
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295742194
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming diet industry. In Reinventing Hoodia, Laura Foster explores how the plant was reinvented through patent ownership, pharmaceutical research, the self-determination efforts of Indigenous San peoples, contractual benefit sharing, commercial development as an herbal supplement, and bioprospecting legislation. Using a feminist decolonial technoscience approach, Foster argues that although patent law is inherently racialized, gendered, and Western, it offered opportunities for Indigenous San peoples, South African scientists, and Hoodia growers to make unequal claims for belonging within the shifting politics of South Africa. This radical interdisciplinary and intersectional account of the multiple materialities of Hoodia illuminates the co-constituted connections between law, science, and the marketplace, while demonstrating how these domains value certain forms of knowledge and matter differently.

Author: Thammineni Pullaiah
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429590245
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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The book provides data on all the species of the two genera Genera Brachystelma Sims and Ceropegia L. in India for their bioprospection and conservation. The other objectives are to promote the beauty and uniqueness of the species of these two genera and also to provide medicinal and edible uses for bioprospection.