Assessment of diversity and conservation status of plants at Mount Kenya University Medicinal Botanical Garden, Thika sub-County, Kiambu County, Kenya

The role of Botanical Gardens in biodiversity conservation is considered. The analysis of the greenhouse collection of Cycadales representatives is carried out. Both the general characteristics of this group of plants (distribution, growth forms, reproduction, taxonomy) and the characteristics of the families and genera Cycadales presented in the collection of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden are given. In the greenhouses, 47 species of Cycadales belonging to 9 genera are grown, all species have a conservation status: CR - 7 species, EN - 10 species, VU - 6 species, NT - 16 species, LC - 8 species.

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Current Status of Threatened Plant Collections in Cibodas Botanical Garden Based on IUCN Red List

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea ◽

10.18330/jwallacea.2020.vol9iss1pp31-42 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 31

Author(s):

Vandra Kurniawan ◽

Dwinda Mariska Putri ◽

Muhammad Imam Surya

Keyword(s):

Threatened Species ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Critically Endangered ◽

Current Status ◽

Main Task ◽

Threatened Plant ◽

Plant Collections

One of the main task of Cibodas Botanical Garden (CBG) is to conserve the Indonesian plants species. Moreover, the preservation and enrichment of threatened plant collections based on IUCN red list categories became an important programme for plants conservation in CBG. The aims of this study are to inventory threatened plant collections and to review the status of CBG threatened plant collections. List of threatened plant collections was gathered from SINDATA, a system developed by CBG. The collection, was reviewed by inspecting current collections in CBG. Literature study was done to review the conservation status of the threatened plant collections. The conservation status was checked in IUCN red list website. The results shown that CBG had collected 86 species of threatened plants, which is 13 Critically Endangered (CR) species, 39 Endangered (EN) species, and 34 Vulnerable (VU) species. Critically endangered category consists of 13 species belong to 8 families and 10 genus. Endangered category consists of 39 species belong to 17 families and 34 genus. Vulnerable category consists of 34 species belong to 27 families and 28 genus. The largest collections of threatened species was genus Nepenthes, which is 16% (14 species) from the total threatened species in CBG. Furthermore, CBG had succeeded in collecting 40 species of Indonesian native plants in which Dipterocarpaceae species were dominate the collection with 7 species. These species are listed as critically endangered (3 species) and endangered (4 species).

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Pseudomassaria chondrospora. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria ◽

10.1079/dfb/20143338514 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

P. F. Cannon

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

North America ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Geographical Distribution ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Economic Impacts ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Deciduous Woodland

Abstract A description is provided for Pseudomassaria chondrospora. This species has been recorded from the following habitats: amenity and protected areas (botanical garden, cemetery), urban areas, woodland (deciduous woodland, scrub). Some information on its dispersal and transmission, associated organisms, and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution: Asia: Georgia and Turkey, Europe: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden and UK, North America: USA (Georgia and Virginia). No reports of negative economic impacts have been found.

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Amomum glabrum S. Q. Tong (Zingiberace), a new record for the flora of Vietnam

VNU Journal of Science Natural Sciences and Technology ◽

10.25073/2588-1140/vnunst.4886 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Nguyen Danh Hung ◽

Nguyen Thanh Chung ◽

Ly Ngoc Sam ◽

Le Thi Huong

Keyword(s):

New Record ◽

National Park ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Ho Chi Minh City ◽

Species Number ◽

North Central ◽

Flora Of China ◽

Central Vietnam ◽

A New Species

Abstract: Amomum glabrum S. Q. Tong (Zingiberaceae), collected from the Provinces in North Central Vietnam (Thanh Hoa province: Xuan Lien Nature Reserve; Nghe An: Pu Mat National Park, Pu Huong and Pu Hoat Nature Resever; Ha Tinh: Vu Quang National Park; Quang Binh: Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park; Thừa Thiên Huế: Bạch Mã National Park), is reported here as a new record for the flora of Vietnam, which raised the species number of Amomum to 13. A detailed description and coloured photographs are provided along with data on distribution, ecology, phenology, conservation status and notes on the relative species Keywords: Amomum, Amomum glabrum, North Central, Zingiberaceae. References [1] de Boer H., Newman M., Poulsen A.D., Droop A.J., Fér T., Lê T.T.H., Hlavatá K., Lamxay V., Richardson J.E., Steffen K. & Leong-Škorničková J., Convergent morphology in Alpinieae (Zingiberaceae): Recircumscribing Amomum as amonophyletic genus, Taxon 67 (1) (2018) 6–36.[2] Gagnepain F., Amomum. In: Lecomte, P. H., Fl. Indo-Chine 6(1) (1908) 102–117.[3] Pham Hoang Ho, An illustrated Flora of Vietnam 3: 432–461, Youth Publication, Ho Chi Minh City (in Vietnamese).[4] Nguyen Quoc Binh, Classification Research in the Zingiberaceae in Vietnam, Biology PhD., Ha Noi, 2011 (in Vietnamese).[5] V. Lamxay and M.F. Newman, Are vision of Amomum (Zingiberaceae) in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 69(1) (2012) 99-206.[6] Ly Ngoc Sam & Jana Leong-Skornickova, Amomum cristatissimum (Zingiberaceae: Alpinieae), a new species with echinate fruits from central Vietnam, Nordic Journal of Botany 36(3) (2018) https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.01691.[7] Wu D.L. and Larsen K., Flora of China 24: 347-356. St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press, and Beijing: Science Press, 2000.[8] S.Q. Tong, Some new taxa of Zingiberaceae from Yunnan, Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 27(4) (1989) 277–292.[9] W. Roxburgh, Amomum. In: Flora Indica 1 (1820) 37–46. Serampore: Mission Press.

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A zoning concept of Polar-Alpine botanical garden-institute as protected area for nature conservation and tourisme development

Proceedings of the International conference “InterCarto/InterGIS” ◽

10.35595/2414-9179-2021-3-27-312-322 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 312-322

Author(s):

Denis Davydov ◽

Evgeny Borovichev ◽

Olga Petrova

Keyword(s):

Protected Area ◽

Industrial Ecology ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Scientific Organization ◽

Natural Ecosystems ◽

Economic Activities ◽

The North ◽

Murmansk Region

A zoning concept of Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute (PABGI) (Russia, Murmansk Region) as a specially protected area is presented. The activities of industrial manufactures in the region did not actually cause a significant negative impact on the ecosystems within its territory, making it possible to preserve the ecosystems typical for the Khibiny. The species richness of phototrophic organisms at the PABGI area is higher than the equal per squares sites in the region. The study presents an analysis of current and types of economic activities that entail a violation of the safety of objects of protection. A differentiated protection regime has been proposed for solution of several heterogeneous problems: the preservation of natural ecosystems, the creation and operation of plant Nurseries, scientific studies, environmental education and natural tourism. The proposed zoning allows the implementation of management for the maintenance, reconstruction, or building of new objects on the territory of the PABSI in the future. The analysis of the territory was carried out on the basis of mapping the locations of species included in the Red Data Books of the region and Russia on the basis of data from the herbaria of the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute (KPABG), the Institute of Industrial Ecology of the North (INEP) and the CRIS information system (http://www.kpabg.ru/cris), taking into account the conservation status, excursion and tourist routes, training sites for climbers. The following zones are allocated on the territory: administrative, scientific-exposition, specially protected and reserved. The most stringent protection regime is determined for the protected area, the softest—for the administrative one. The proposed zoning should contribute to both the unconditional preservation of natural complexes and protected species and the conduct of scientific research and the successful functioning of the PABGI as a scientific organization and sustainable recreational use of the territory.

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Pogostemon guamensis Lorence & W.L.Wagner (Lamiaceae), a new species from Guam, Mariana Islands

PhytoKeys ◽

10.3897/phytokeys.169.58107 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 169 ◽

pp. 61-73

Author(s):

David H. Lorence ◽

Warren L. Wagner ◽

Kenneth R. Wood ◽

Gabriel Johnson

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Air Force ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Mariana Islands ◽

Botanical Survey ◽

Air Force Base ◽

A New Species

While undertaking a botanical survey of the Andersen Air Force Base on Guam (Mariana Islands) in 1994, botanists from the National Tropical Botanical Garden collected an unusual suffrutescent, non-aromatic member of the Lamiaceae family growing on limestone cliffs in the northeastern part of the island. Based on morphology and molecular data (trnLF, matK), it was determined to belong to the genus Pogostemon Desf., a genus previously unknown from the Micronesian, Melanesian, and Polynesian region. Moreover, the analysis also showed that it was not conspecific with P. cablin (patchouli), and of the species available to include in the phylogenetic analyses it is sister to P. hirsutus¸ a species from India and Sri Lanka. Differing from its congeners by its large, loose inflorescence 2.5–5 cm wide and up to 7 cm wide in fruit, it is here illustrated and described as a new species, Pogostemon guamensis Lorence & W.L. Wagner and its habitat and conservation status are discussed.

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EXPERIENCE OF REINTRODUCTION OF THE RARE RELICT SPECIES ALLIUM OBLIQUUM L. IN THE BASHKIR CIS-URALS

ÈKOBIOTEH ◽

10.31163/2618-964x-2021-4-4-298-309 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 298-309

Author(s):

A.A. Muldashev ◽

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O.A. Elizaryeva ◽

N.V. Maslova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Natural Population ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Vegetative Reproduction ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Limiting Factors ◽

Relict Species ◽

Republic Of Bashkortostan ◽

The Republic ◽

Adult Plants ◽

The Disappeared

The article discusses the features of distribution, ecology, the conservation status and the limiting factors of the rare relict species Allium obliquum L. in the Bashkir Cis-Urals. The preliminary results of experiments on an artificial increase in the number of threatened populations are given. The object of protection in the work is the population of the species near the Bishkain village (Aurgazinsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan) The complex of measures for the preservation of the A. obliquum gene pool in this population includes: monitoring of the preserved natural population, introduction to the nursery of the Botanical Garden (Ufa), introduction to the Natural Botanical Garden (Kushnarenkovsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan), creation of reserve artificial populations in the vicinity of the natural population near the Bishkain village and in the place of the disappeared population near the Uksunny village (Aurgazinsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan). Two methods of mobilization of the species have been used – sowing seeds and adult plants transplant. At each stage of reintroduction measures, generative plants and seeds were obtained. Vegetative reproduction of plants is noted. We consider plant transplantation to be a faster and more reliable way of creating artificial populations, the safety of individuals from the number of planted so far ranged from 50.0 to 95.0%.

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Biodiversity Conservation in Botanical Gardens: The Collection of Pinaceae Representatives in the Greenhouses of Peter the Great Botanical Garden (BIN RAN)

KnE Life Sciences ◽

10.18502/kls.v4i14.5682 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

E M Arnautova ◽

M A Yaroslavceva

Keyword(s):

Biodiversity Conservation ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Short Description ◽

Endangered Plants ◽

Natural Habitats ◽

Botanical Gardens ◽

Peter The Great ◽

Rare And Endangered

The work researches the role of botanical gardens in biodiversity conservation. It cites the total number of rare and endangered plants in the greenhouse collection of Peter the Great Botanical garden (BIN RAN). The greenhouse collection of Pinaceae representatives has been analysed, provided with a short description of family, genus and certain species, presented in the collection. The article highlights the importance of Pinaceae for various industries, decorative value of plants of this group, the worth of the pinaceous as having environment-improving properties. In the greenhouses there are 37 species of Pinaceae, of 7 geni, all species have a conservation status: CR – 2 species, EN – 3 species, VU- 3 species, NT – 4 species, LC – 25 species. For most species it is indicated what causes depletion. Most often it is the destruction of natural habitats, uncontrolled clearance, insect invasion and diseases.

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The importance of rediscovering rare and endemic plants: Two species of Pleroma D.Don (Melastomataceae), an update of conservation status, and improved descriptions

Webbia ◽

10.36253/jopt-8902 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 75 (2) ◽

pp. 293-304

Author(s):

Paulo José Fernandes Guimaraes ◽

Caio Baez ◽

Patrícia Rosa ◽

Gustavo Martinelli ◽

Diego Nunes Da Silva

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Plant Conservation ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

The State ◽

Current Conservation ◽

Distribution Maps ◽

Mountainous Regions ◽

High Diversity

The remaining portion of Atlantic Forest in the state of Rio de Janeiro constitutes a strategic challenge in the conservation of the biome, by concentrating high richness and endemism of species that are distributed in distinct vegetative fragments covering the mountainous regions. In the state, the genus Pleroma presents a high diversity, currently 45 species, of which 14 are endemic and several of these have knowledge gaps. This paper aims to document rediscoveries in the Três Picos State Park of two species of Pleroma that had not been collected for 69 and 100 years respectively. These discoveries resulted from the actions of the National Center for Plant Conservation, a division of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. Updated descriptions, geographic information and distribution maps, and cited collections for these two species of Pleroma are presented here together with an assessment of their current conservation status. Based on IUCN criteria, we recommend a classification of Critically Endangered (CR) and Endangered (EN) for Pleroma virgatum and P. elegans, respectively.

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Rare plants of the mountains of southern Siberia in the collection Polar Alpine Botanical Garden

Проблемы ботаники Южной Сибири и Монголии ◽

10.14258/pbssm.2020052 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 264-268

Author(s):

L. L. Viracheva

Keyword(s):

Conservation Status ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Rare Plants ◽

Field Trips ◽

The Arctic ◽

Southern Siberia ◽

Threatened Taxa ◽

Rare And Endangered ◽

Viable Seeds ◽

Mountains Of Southern Siberia

In the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden (67o38′N and 33o37′E) plants of the mountains of Southern Siberiahave been tested since 1934 (Altai) and 1936 (Sayan Mountains). Plants obtained from field trips to that areas. Theanalysis of the existing diversity of rare and endangered plants from the mountains of Southern Siberia in the open groundcollection of the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden is carried out. Currently, the collection of rare plants of the mountains ofSouthern Siberia totals 18 species belonging to 14 genera of 12 families. Four species are included in the Red Book of theRussian Federation: Allium altaicum, Erythronium sibiricum, Fritillaria dagana, Rheum compactum. Three plants in needof protection are included in the Red List of Threatened Taxa of the International Union for Conservation of Nature: –Species in close to threatened status (conservation status NT): Allium altaicum; – Least Concerned Species (conservationstatus LC): Allium ledebourianum, Paeonia anomala. All studied species in the conditions of the Arctic annually bloomand are able to produce viable seeds. The group of plants reaching the fruiting phase is very heterogeneous:– bear fruitannually: Allium altaicum, Sedum roseum, Erythronium sibiricum, Callianthemum sajanense; – bear fruit almost annually:Allium ledebourianum, Stemmacantha carthamoides, Iris bloudowii, Iris sibirica, Paeonia anomala, Primula elatior ssp.pallasii, Primula veris ssp. macrocalyx; – bear fruit irregularly: Iris humilis, Rheum altaicum, Adonis apennina; – rarelybear fruit: Brunnera sibirica, Gentiana dschungarica, Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus, Fritillaria dagana.

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