The Asclepiadaceae, as traditionally defined, have repeatedly been shown to be an
apomorphic derivative of the Apocynaceae. It has often been recommended that the …

The Cape Floristic Region of South Africa is a global biodiversity hotspot. In 1998, a process
of conservation planning began in the region that required quantitative targets for …

Conservation seeks ultimately to protect and maintain biodiversity indefinitely. Most
biodiversity features targeted in past conservation planning have been largely aspects of …

Premise of the Study We provide the largest phylogenetic analyses to date of Apocynaceae
in terms of taxa and molecular data as a framework for analyzing the evolution of vegetative …

Despite many decades of vegetation-related research, the globally significant Cape Floristic
Region (CFR) lacks a system of land classes that can be used as surrogates for biodiversity …

Predictions can be made about how a given plant might be pollinated by looking at its
morphology, colour, nectar and odour. But scientists are increasingly finding that these …

Abstract The genera Brachystelma Sims and Ceropegia L. of the Ceropegieae
(Apocynaceae–Asclepiadoideae) consist of±320 species of geophytes and slender climbers …

Plants are adapted for pollination by birds in diverse and intricate ways. Here I describe an
extraordinary example of these adaptations. The flowers of Microloma sagittatum, a member …

Aspects of the relationships between the plants and the flower-visiting insects of the north-
western Cape, South Africa, based upon a 3-year study on permanent plots, are examined …

A parsimony cladistic analysis based on 55 morphological characters was performed for the
Cascabela Raf.–Thevetia L. species complex (Apocynaceae), including 22 terminals …