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Department of Plant Science

Plant population and vegetation dynamics - Research Output

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Trytsman M, van Wyk AE, Masemola EL: 2011. Systematics, diversity and forage value of indigenous legumes of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. African Journal of Biotechnology, 10 (63) / Oct, pp 13773-13779, Full Text

Smith GF, Roux JP, Raven P, Figueiredo E: 2011. African herbaria support transformation on the continent. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 98 (2) / July, pp 272-276, Full Text

Victor JE, Smith GF: 2011. The conservation imperative and setting plant taxonomic research priorities in South Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation, 20, pp 1501-1505, Full Text

Roux JP: 2011. The genus Cyrtomium (Pteridophyta: Dryopteridaceae) in Africa and Madagascar. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 167 (4), pp 449-465, Full Text

Crouch NR, Smith GF: 2011. Informing and influencing the interface between biodiversity science and biodiversity policy in South Africa. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 166, pp 301-309.

Figueiredo E, Paiva J, Stevart T, Oliveira F, Smith GF: 2011. Annotated catalogue of the flowering plants of Sao Tomé en Principe. Bothalia, 41 (1), pp 41-82, Full Text

Crouch NR, Smith GF: 2011. Agavaceae. Furcraea Foetida: An invading alien in South Africa. Bothalia, 41 (1), pp 196-199, Full Text

Jordaan M, van Wyk AE, Maurin O: 2011. A conspectus of Combretum (Combretaceae) in southern Africa, with taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on species and sections. Bothalia, 41 (1), pp 135-160, Full Text

Jordaan M, van Wyk AE, Maurin O: 2011. Generic status of Quisqualis (Combretaceae), with notes on the taxonomy and distribution of Q. parviflora. Bothalia, 41 (1), pp 161-169, Full Text

Vosa CG, Siebert SJ, van Wyk AE: 2011. Alliaceae: micromorphology and cytology of Prototulbaghia siebertii, with notes on its taxonomic significance. Bothalia, 41 (2), pp 311-314, Full Text

Klopper RR, van Wyk AE: 2011. Pteridophyta-Sinopteridaceae. A new subspecies of Cheilanthes deltoidea from Gauteng and Limpopo, South Africa. Bothalia, 41 (1), pp 204-207, Full Text

Crouch NR, Smith GF, Styles D: 2011. Asphodelaceae: Alooideae.Casteria croucheri subsp. Pondoensis, a new cremnophyte from Pondoland, South Africa. Bothalia, 41 (1), pp 183-185, Full Text

de Sousa F, Figueiredo E, Smith GF: 2011. Vitaceae. A new and an overlooked record of Cyphostemma in Angola. Bothalia, 41 (2), pp 294-295, Full Text

Crouch NR, Smith GF: 2011. Aloe sharoniae N.R. Crouch & Gideon F.Sm. (Asphodelaceae): species rank for a leptoaloe from southern africa. Bradleya, 29, pp 115-120, Full Text

Figueiredo E, Smith GF: 2011. Who's in a name: eponymy of the name Aloe thompsoniae Groenew., with notes on naming species after people. Bradleya, 29, pp 121-124, Full Text

Smith GF, Walker C, Figueiredo E: 2011. What's in the name: an update on epithets used in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae). Bradleya, 29, pp 179-181, Full Text

Smith GF, Figueiredo E: 2011. Provenance of the material on which the name Aloe mendesii Reynolds (Asphodelaceae), a cliff-dwelling species from Angola, is based. Bradleya, 29, pp 61-66, Full Text

Smith GF, Figueiredo E, Boatwright JS, Crouch NR: 2011. South Africa's ongoing Opuntia Mill. (Cactaceae) problem: the case of Opuntia microdasys (Lehm.) Pfeiff.. Bradleya, 29, pp 73-78, Full Text

de Sousa F, Figueiredo E, Smith GF: 2011. The genus Cyphostemma (Planch.) Alston (Vitaceae) in Angola. Bradleya, 29, pp 79-92, Full Text

Klopper RR, Grace OM, Smith GF, Figueiredo E: 2011. Reinstatement of Aloe graciliflora Groenew. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae), a maculate aloe from north-east South Africa. Bradleya, 29, pp 125-130, Full Text

Smith GF, Figueiredo E: 2011. Sedum album: a mainstay of European succulents. Cactus and Succulent Journal, 81.

Smith GF, Figueiredo E: 2011. Aloe palmiformis an endemic krantz aloe from Angola. Cactus and Succulent Journal, 83 (1), pp 22-27.

Smith GF: 2011. Portulacaceae in South Africa, with Reference toAnacampseros decapitata, a Recently Described Miniature Succulent Plant Species. Cactus and Succulent Journal, 83 (4), pp 163-168.

Smith GF, Figueiredo E: 2011. Umbilicus rupestris: an interesting member of the Crassulaceae in Portugal. Cactus and Succulent Journal, 83 (5), pp 232-235.

Foxcroft LC, Jarosik V, Pysek P, Richardson DM, Rouget M: 2011. Protected-area boundaries as filters of plant invasions. Conservation Biology, 5 (2), pp 400-405, Full Text

van Wilgen BW, Dyer C, Hoffmann J H, Ivey P, le Maitre D, Moore JL, Richardson DM, Rouget M, Wannenburgh A, Wilson JRU: 2011. National-scale strategic approaches for managing introduced plants: insights from Australian acacias in South Africa. Diversity and Distributions, 17, pp 1060-1075, Full Text

Smith GF, Crouch NR, Klopper RR, Condy G: 2011. Aloe neilcrouchii Asphodelaceae: Alooideae. Flowering Plants of Africa, 62, pp 10-15.

Vosa CG, van Wyk AE, Siebert SJ, Condy G: 2011. Prototulbaghia siebertii (Plate 2264) (Alliaceae). Flowering Plants of Africa, 62, pp 22-28.

van Jaarsveld EJ, van Wyk AE, Loedolff J: 2011. Jensenobotrya lossowiana (Plate 2270) (Mesembryanthemaceae). Flowering Plants of Africa, 62, pp 64-69.

Coetzer LA, van Wyk AE, Buitendag E: 2011. Tylosema fassoglense (Plate 2271) (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae). Flowering Plants of Africa, 62, pp 70-79.

van Jaarsveld EJ, Swanepoel W, van Wyk AE, Thomas V: 2011. Plumbago hunsbergensis (Plate 2273) (Plumbaginaceae). Flowering Plants of Africa, 62, pp 88-93.

Lemaire B, Robbrecht E, van Wyk AE, van Oevelen S, Verstraete B, Prinsen E, Smets E, Dessein S: 2011. Identification, origin and evolution of leaf nodulating symbionts of Sericanthe (Rubiaceae). Journal of Microbiology, 49 (6), pp 935-941, Full Text

Lagabrielle E, Rouget M, Le Bourgeois T, Payet K, Payet K, Durieux L, Baret S, Dupont J, Strasberg D: 2011. Integrating conservation, restoration and land-use planning in islands - An illustrative case study in Reunion Island (Western Indian Ocean). Landscape and Urban Planning, 101, pp 120-130, Full Text

Davies TJ, Smith GF, Bellstedt DU, Boatwright JS, Bytebier B, Cowling RM, Forest F, Harmon LJ, Muasya M, Schrire BD, Steenkamp Y, van der Bank M, Savolainen V: 2011. Extinction Risk and Diversification are linked in a Plant Biodiversity Hotspot. PLoS Biology, 9 (5) / May, pp 1-9, Full Text

Verstraete B, van Elst D, Steyn H, van Wyk AE, Lemaire B, Smets E, Dessein S: 2011. Endophytic Bacteria in toxic South African plants: Identification, Phylogeny and Possible Involvement in Gousiekte. Plos One, 6 (4), pp e19265 1-7, Full Text

Jarosik V, Pysek P, Foxcroft LC, Richardson DM, Rouget M, MacFayden S: 2011. Predicting Incursion of plant Invaders into Kruger National Park, South Africa: The Interplay of General Drivers and Species-Specific Factors. Plos One, 6 (12) / Dec, pp 1-12, Full Text

Swanepoel W: 2011. Commiphora buruxa (Burseraceae), a new species from southern Namibia. South African Journal of Botany, 77 (3), pp 608-612, Full Text

Swanepoel W, Kolberg H: 2011. Abrus kaokoensis (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae-Abreae), a new species from Namibia. South African Journal of Botany, 77 (3), pp 613-617.

Maurin O, van Wyk AE, Jordaan M, van der Bank M: 2011. A new species of Combretum section Ciliatipetala (Combretaceae) from southern Africa, with a key to the regional members of the section. South African Journal of Botany, 77 (1), pp 105-111, Full Text

Smith GF, Figueiredo E, Moore G: 2011. Who amends the International Code of botanical Nomenclature? A response to Applequist & al. (2010). Taxon, 60 (1) / Feb, pp 213-215, Full Text

Moore G, Smith GF, Figueiredo E, Demissew S, Lewis G, Schrire BD, Rico L, van Wyk AE, Luckow M, Kiesling R, Mario Sousa S: 2011. The Acacia controversy resulting from minority rule at the Vienna Nomenclature Section: Much more than arcane arguments and complex technicalities. Taxon, 60 (3) / Jun, pp 852-857, Full Text

Smith GF, Figueiredo E, Moore G: 2011. English and Latin as alternative languages for validating the names of organisms covered by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants: The final chapter?. Taxon, 60 (5), pp 1502-1503, Full Text

Books:

van Wyk AE, van den Berg E, Palgrave MC, Jordaan M: 2011. Dictionary of names for southern African trees. Briza Publications, 956 pp.

Chapters in books:

Smith GF: 2011. Invasive succulent plants. Agavaceae Dumort. In Naturalised and invasive succulents of southern Africa, (6) / 2, Abc Taxa, pp 34-63.

 

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