Ethnoflora of the Soqotra ArchipelagoManual to the plants of this group of islands off the Horn of Africa. It provides comprehensive information on the traditional uses of all plants found and contains a fully illustrated key to all plant families and species. Most of the circa 300 endemic species have colour photographs. Additional colour plates record the landscapes, people and culture of the islands.-- |
Contents
floristics and vegetation peoples use of plants and conservation issues | 45 |
ILLUSTRATED KEY | 61 |
PLANT PORTRAITS | 233 |
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5-lobed Abd al Kuri absent actinomorphic aloes Ambasta animals Arabia awns axillary axils Balf.f bark base Botanical notes bracts branches calyx camels capsule cattle ceived threat clusters Conservation status Corolla Dalziel date palm dead wood densely Dhofar Distribution dried dry season eaten Ecology elliptic Endemic erect ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES Name(s feed Fillips fodder foliage Food human Food livestock forage fruit glabrous glume goats grasses grazing green ground Haggeher mountains hairs hairy herders Inflorescence island Jain juice Kunkel lanceolate latex leaf leaflets Least Concern LC Leaves alternate Leaves linear Leaves ovate limestone limestone plateau lobes margin milk narrowly obovate Ovary panicle pedicels perennial perianth Petals petiolate phyllaries plants pods racemes rains Rare roots Samha seeds Sepals sessile sheep shrub shrubland skin small stock socotrana sometimes Soqotri simplified species spikelets spikes spiny Stamens stems subshrub succulent shrubland tepals treat tree tube vegetation types woodland yellow