Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is chaired by Dame Amelia Fawcett.
Daniel Oliver, FRS was an English botanist.
Myrica is a genus of about 35–50 species of small trees and shrubs in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. The genus has a wide distribution, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, and missing only from Australia. Some botanists split the genus into two genera on the basis of the catkin and fruit structure, restricting Myrica to a few species, and treating the others in Morella.
Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl.
Erythrophleum is a genus of legume in the family Fabaceae. It includes ten species native to sub-Saharan Africa, Indochina, southern China, and northern Australia.
Knema glomerata is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is a tree found in Borneo, the Moluccas and the Philippines.
Campylospermum amplectens, synonym Ouratea amplectens, is a species of plant in the family Ochnaceae. It is found in west tropical Africa: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Ouratea is a genus of flowering plants in the family (Ochnaceae). Many genera have been brought into synonymy with Ouratea, including Gomphia.
Ouratea prominens, synonym Ouratea cocleensis, is a species of plant in the family Ochnaceae. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Tapinanthus preussii is a species of plant in the family Loranthaceae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Psychotria rufipilis is an African rainforest understory shrub from the coffee family, Rubiaceae.
Macrosolen is a genus of plants in the family Loranthaceae. It includes about 83 species all over the world with ca. 40 species widely distributed in tropical South and Southeast Asia. Some species were described by de Loureiro, Lecomte, Danser (1938) and Hô (2003).
Oliverella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae.
Tolypanthus is a genus of plants in the family Loranthaceae.
Korthalsella rubra is a flowering plant in the Santalaceae (sandalwood) family, formerly placed in the Viscaceae.
Campylospermum oliveri is a species of plant in the Ochnaceae family. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Trilepidea is an extinct monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae. Its native range was New Zealand. The only species was Trilepidea adamsii, or Adams mistletoe. It was first described in 1880 as Loranthus adamsii and has ever only been collected from a few locations in the North Island. It has been argued that the extinction of this species, vulnerable due to restricted distribution, was caused by interaction of a number of factors, including introduction of an exotic species, in this case the brushtail possum from Australia.
Krukoviella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ochnaceae. It has one synonym PlanchonellaTiegh. The only species is Krukoviella disticha(Tiegh.) Dwyer
Passovia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae.
