Odile Weber
Royal Botanic Gardens
20 Papers
59 Citations
Odile Weber is an academic researcher from Royal Botanic Gardens. The author has contributed to research in topics: Endemism & Threatened species. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 17 publications.
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Papers
Dioscorea orangeana (Dioscoreaceae), a new and threatened species of edible yam from northern Madagascar
TL;DR: A new species of yam (Dioscorea orangeana Wilkin) is described and illustrated, which differs from D. comorensis R.Knuth by having undulate leaf margins and a broader torus and tepals in both the male and female flowers.
Two distinctive new species of Commicarpus (Nyctaginaceae) from gypsum outcrops in eastern Ethiopia
TL;DR: The locality with the two new species of Commicarpus is the most north-western and one of the highest sites recorded so far for gypsum endemics.
Extinction risk and conservation gaps for Aloe (Asphodelaceae) in the Horn of Africa
Steven P. Bachman,Steven P. Bachman,Paul Wilkin,Tom Reader,Richard Field,Odile Weber,Inger Nordal,Sebsebe Demissew,Sebsebe Demissew +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a dataset of herbarium voucher specimens and occurrence data to estimate geographic distribution of 88 species of Aloe and used this to estimate extinction risk and establish the major threats to Aloe in this region.
A new species of yam from Kenya, Dioscorea kituiensis: pollen morphology, conservation status, and speciation.
Paul Wilkin,A. Muthama Muasya,Hannah Banks,Carol A. Furness,Kai Vollesen,Odile Weber,Sebsebe Demissew +6 more
TL;DR: Comparative morphological studies of specimens included in Dioscorea gillettii from Kenya and Ethiopia show differentiation between a northern group of populations in Sidamo and Bale Provinces in Ethiopia and near Moyale in northern Kenya and a southern group found in Kitui and Meru Districts of Kenya, and the southern element is described as a new species.
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New species of Gladiolus L. and Moraea Mill. (Iridaceae) from Tanzania and Mozambique
TL;DR: Two new species of this large African and Eurasian genus of Iridaceae subfamily Crocoideae, both from Tanzania, are added, bringing the total in the genus in tropical Africa to 84 species and the entire genus to 270 species.
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