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Browsing Plant Science by Author "Klopper, Ronell Renett"
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Klopper, Ronell Renett; Matos, S.; Figueiredo, Estrela; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959- (National Botanical Institute, 2009)Botanical exploration of Angola was virtually impossible during the almost three-decade-long civil war. With more areas becoming accessible, there is, however, a revived interest in the flora of this country. A total of ...
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Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Figueiredo, Estrela; Klopper, Ronell Renett; Crouch, Neil R. (British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2012)Although morphologically variable and widely distributed in southern Africa, Aloe maculata All. is well defined by a suite of characters that includes maculate (spotted) leaves, flattopped inflorescences and uniformly ...
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Smith, Gideon F.; Figueiredo, Estrela; Crouch, Neil R.; Oosthuizen, Delia; Klopper, Ronell Renett (Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2016)The natural hybrid between Aloe arborescens Mill. and A. chortolirioides A.Berger var. chortolirioides (Asphodelaceae) is here formally described as a nothospecies, A. ×inopinata Gideon F.Sm., N.R.Crouch & Oosth. The ...
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Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Klopper, Ronell Renett; Figueiredo, Estrela; Crouch, Neil R. (British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2012)Taxonomic concepts in the morphologically variable Aloe arborescens Mill. are discussed. Previous approaches to the taxonomy of this species varied from describing aberrant material as new entities, using formal ...
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Klopper, Ronell Renett; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959- (National Botanical Institute, 2009)No abstract available.
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Klopper, Ronell Renett; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959- (National Botanical Institute, 2009)The separate specifi c status of these plants was recently confi rmed by Dr Norbert Hahn (pers. comm.). After extensive fi eldwork in the Soutpansberg, he came to the conclusion that populations hitherto regarded as A. ...
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Asphodelaceae: Alooideae. Aloe neilcrouchii, a new robust Leptoaloe from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Klopper, Ronell Renett; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959- (National Botanical Institute, 2010)The species described here, Aloe neilcrouchii Klopper & Gideon F.Sm., belongs to A. sect. Leptoaloe and represents the largest and most robust species known in this group.
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Klopper, Ronell Renett; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959- (National Botanical Institute, 2010)Aloe spectabilis Reynolds (1937) was described from material that was collected from KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern-most province of South Africa. Previously, material of this species was erroneously considered to represent a ...
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Klopper, Ronell Renett; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2013)The combination Kumara plicatilis (L.) Klopper & Gideon F.Sm. recently published for the fan aloe [Aloe plicatilis (L.) Burm.f.], is a synonym of Kumara plicatilis (L.) G.D.Rowley, the latter having priority due to ...
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Klopper, Ronell Renett; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Figueiredo, Estrela; Grace, Olwen Megan; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam); Moore, Gerry; Lendemer, James; Tripp, Erin (International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2013-12)The correct names and synonymy for species of Aloe sect. Chortolirion (A. Berger) Boatwr. & J.C. Manning (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) are provided. This treatment recognises four species in this section, namely A. welwitschii, ...
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Grace, Olwen Megan; Buerki, Sven; Symonds, Michael E.; Forest, Felix; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam); Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Klopper, Ronell Renett; Bjorå, Charlotte S.; Neale, Sophie; Demissew, Sebsebe; Simmonds, Monique S.J.; Rønsted, Nina (BioMed Central, 2015-02)BACKGROUND : Aloe vera supports a substantial global trade yet its wild origins, and explanations for its popularity over 500 related Aloe species in one of the world’s largest succulent groups, have remained uncertain. ...
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Klopper, Ronell Renett; Zietsman, P.C.; Du Preez, Pieter J.; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959- (British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2010)The only recorded exotic species to become naturalized in South Africa is Aloe camperi Schweinf. It is well known that Aloe arborescens Mill. can become naturalized in Mediterranean areas outside of southern Africa. Here ...
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Klopper, Ronell Renett; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959- (Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2010)The Eastern Cape is extremely diverse and is a climatic, topographic and geological transition zone. This transitional nature of the environment is reflected in the phytogeographical and phytosociological complexity of ...
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Klopper, Ronell Renett; Lane, Stewart S.; Msekandiana-Mkwapatira, Gladys; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959- (British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2012)Malawi is a landlocked country situated in the eastern section of South Tropical Africa. This relatively small country has a rich mosaic of habitats owing to the varied topography, altitudinal ranges and rainfall found ...
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Klopper, Ronell Renett (University of Pretoria, 2000)Salsola L. is one of the largest genera within the Chenopodiaceae. It has been suggested that almost 90 species occur in southern Africa where the plants are most conspicuous in karroid areas. Members of Salsola are of ...
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Klopper, A.W.; Klopper, Ronell Renett (National Botanical Institute, 2011-01)Selaginella nivea Alston ex Alston was first described from southern Madagascar where it grows on rocks in Euphorbia spp. and Didierea spp. xerophilous bush (Stefanović & Rakotondrainibe 1996). The species has since been ...
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Bester, S.P. (Stoffel Petrus); Herman, Paul P.J.; Klopper, Ronell Renett (Magnolia Press, 2012)New country and provincial distribution records for South Africa of specimens collected mainly in various South African National Parks are reported on here. The taxa included in this contribution are of Orthanthera albida ...
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Bester, S.P. (Stoffel Petrus); Klopper, Ronell Renett; Steyn, Hester Maria; Bezuidenhout, Hugo (AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-11-12)The Tankwa Karoo National Park has been enlarged from 27 064 ha to 143 600 ha. This whole area is severely under-collected for plants in general and therefore it was an obvious target for the South African National Parks ...
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Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Figueiredo, Estrela; Klopper, Ronell Renett; Crouch, Neil R.; Janion, Charlene; Chown, Steven Loudon (British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2012)The widely distributed agave snout weevil, Scyphophorus acupunctatus Gyllenhal, is for the first time recorded from Agave salmiana Otto ex Salm-Dyck subsp. salmiana in South Africa. In its native habitat in Mexico, ...
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Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Klopper, Ronell Renett; Figueiredo, Estrela; Crouch, Neil R.; Barkworth, Mary E. (British Cactus and Succulent Society, 2013)We show that of four previously unrecorded, but recently unearthed names in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae), none has an impact on the species-rank nomenclature of the genus as currently accepted. Although nomenclatural ...
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