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NOVITATES GABONENSES 80. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO THE FLORA OF GABON

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2011

G. Walters ,
G. Dauby ,
T. Stévart ,
S. Dessein ,
R. Niangadouma  and
O. Lachenaud
G. Walters
Affiliation:
Institut de Pharmacopée et Médécines Traditionnelles, Herbier National du Gabon, B.P. 1135, Libreville, Gabon. University College London, Department of Anthropology, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. Current address: IUCN Forest Programme, West and Central Africa Program, B.P. 5506, Yaoundé, Cameroon. E-mail: [email protected]
G. Dauby
Affiliation:
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Av. F. Roosevelt, CP 160/12, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
T. Stévart
Affiliation:
Missouri Botanical Garden, Africa and Madagascar Department, PO Box 299, St Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA. Herbarium et Bibliothèque de Botanique africaine, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles – ULB, 50 Av. F. Roosevelt, CP 169, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Domein van Bouchout, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium.
S. Dessein
Affiliation:
National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Domein van Bouchout, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium.
R. Niangadouma
Affiliation:
Institut de Pharmacopée et Médécines Traditionnelles, Herbier National du Gabon, B.P. 1135, Libreville, Gabon.
O. Lachenaud
Affiliation:
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Av. F. Roosevelt, CP 160/12, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Domein van Bouchout, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium.
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Abstract

Since the publication of the Gabon Checklist in 2006, intensive fieldwork activity has led to the discovery of many novelties. We document here 61 new records for the flora of Gabon, including nine new generic records. Five taxa are also removed from the Gabon flora.

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Central Africachecklistfloranational records
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , November 2011 , pp. 423 - 442
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Copyright © Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 2011

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