Gouania longipetala Hemsl. (Rhamnaceae) is a medicinal plant from Côte d’Ivoire used to treat many diseases like malaria, gastrointestinal infections and gout. Scientific research of aerial part revealed the presence...
Fossil leaves,fruits,and woods assigned to Rhamnaceae have been recorded from India,however,there are no previous reports of rhamnaceous fossil flowers from India.Here,we report the first fossil flowers in appreciable...
The authors are thankful to DST-SERB,GOl(File no.CRG/2020/001303)for their financial assistance.
The Ventilago Gaertn.(Rhamnaceae)is widely distributed in pantropical areas of Africa,Asia,and Australia.However,fossil records of this taxon are sparse,which limits understanding of the evolution and biogeographic hi...
This study was supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0301);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31860167 and 32101234);Wild Plants Sharing and Service Platform of Sichuan Province.
A novel species of Rhamnaceae,Colubrina zhaoguangii,is discovered in Sichuan,China,during the biodiversity investigations of the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research.Detailed descriptions and illu...
Jujube(Ziziphus jujuba Mill.)belongs to the Rhamnaceae family.It is distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of Europe and Asia,including India,China,Iran,Russia,and the Middle East.Jujube is a highly toler...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS (Grant Nos. XDA2007030102 & XDB26000000);the NSFC (the National Natural Science Foundation of China)-NERC (Natural Environment Research Council of the United Kingdom) joint research program (Grant Nos. 41661134049 & NE/P013805/1);The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP), CAS (Grant No. 2019QZKK0705);Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS (Grant No. 2017439);Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (Grant No. QYZDB-SSW-SMC016)
A new occurrence of buckthorn fossil leaves is reported from the upper Eocene strata of Markam Basin,southeastern Tibet,China.The leaf margin is either entire or slightly sinuous.Secondary veins are regularly spaced,f...
The genus Ziziphus Mill. is a member of the Family Rhamnaceae and comprises of ca. 170 species distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. The species in the genus are of economic and medicinal importance. This s...
the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan for obtaining a fellowship with grant number (1-8/HEC/HRD/2011/2162)
Objective: To search for the most active antimicrobial and antioxidant sub-fractions related to traditional use of Ziziphus oxyphylla(Z. oxyphylla) and Cedrela serrata(C. serrata) in Pakistan against infectious and li...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41210001);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.10151027501000020);the Key Project of Sun Yat-sen University for inviting foreign teachers;the Scientific Research Fund,Hongda Zhang,Sun Yat-sen University
The genus Paliurus is characterized by its distinctive orbicular-winged fruits and a trilocular(or bilocular) ovary. Macrofossil records suggested this genus was distributed widely in North America, Europe, and Asia d...