ABSTRACT: Ethiopia is trying to establish botanic gardens with the first one in place being the recently inaugurated Gullele Botanic Garden in Addis Abeba. In order to develop this newly established garden as well as any other future botanic garden, Ethiopia needs to gather information from the experience of other botanic gardens that have been on the scene for many years. An attempt is here made to review the origin, role and status of botanic gardens of the world…
Tags: Botanic Garden, Ethiopia, Gullele, History, Importance, Possibilities, Role.
ABSTRACT: The Asteraceae is one of the largest families of flowering plants. It includes a large number of genera and species with rapid rates of radiation and possibly also of evolution. Members of the family have also been studied in connection with the effect of climate change on character evolution in plants. Some of the features of the family that have enabled such rapid radiation and possible speciation reside within the group of flowers that are produced commonly at the […]
Tags: Asteraceae, Biology, Chemistry, Flower morphology, Review and project ideas, Species
ABSTRACT: Ethiopia together with Eritrea has a rich grass flora comprising over 600 species. Grasses typical of each of the vegetation types found in the area are discussed. Grasses from specialised edaphic conditions are considered, and also weed, pasture and lawn grasses…
Tags: Ethiopia, Grasses, Grassland, Poaceae
ABSTRACT: Customary, exclusionary and inclusionary conservation approaches in Ethiopia are highlighted in relation to the historical aspects of conservation in general and plant biodiversity conservation in particular. Currently, plant biodiversity conservation is one of the mandates of the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute (EBI)…
ABSTRACT: Changes in Flora-information over time can be divided into three different categories: (1) “Real changes” (species enter the region by natural dispersal or become extinct). (2) “Floristic changes” (species known from elsewhere are discovered). (3) “Taxonomic changes” (species are discovered and described, taxonomic revisions change the status of previously known species)…
Tags: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Floristic changes, Floristic exploration, Taxonomic changes
ABSTRACT: The Ethiopian Flora Project was started in 1980 with the objectives of writing up a Flora of Ethiopia within the shortest time possible; build-up of the National Herbarium and a related library and promoting scientific activities in taxonomic botany, economic botany, forestry, plant ecology, plant physiology, etc. The writing up of the Flora of Ethiopia within the shortest time possible was the cardinal objective of the project…
ABSTRACT: A brief account of some of the problems experienced during the 29 years of editing is given, as well as comments on how the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea is being used at present…
ABSTRACT: Prior to the initiation of the Ethiopian Flora Project (EFP), there were a number of attempts over the years to write the flora for a particular region/s or areas of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The modern Ethiopian Flora Project was initiated in 1980 as a bilateral agreement between the Ethiopian and Swedish governments through the then Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission (ESTC) (now the Ministry of Science and Technology) and the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries (SAREC) […]
Tags: Botany, Ethiopian Flora Project, Gulelle Botanical Garden, National Herbarium
