Volume 26(2)

Research on the Ethiopian Flora

Proceedings of the first Ethiopian Flora Symposium held in Uppsala May 22-26 1984

Edited by Inga Hedberg

Uppsala 1986

Preface
Olov Herberg

The Ethiopian Flora Project and the development of botany as a science in Ethiopia
Tewolde Berhan G. Egziabher
1-8

The Ethiopian Flora Project and the development of technical botanical literature in Ethiopia
Sue Edwards
9-12

The Ethiopian Flora Project and the development of herbaria in Ethiopia
Ensermu Kelbessa
13-16

The Ethiopian Flora Project: a progress report
Inga Hedberg
17-18

Some aspects of the climate of Ethiopia
Gösta H. Liljequist
19-30

The forest vegetation of Ethiopia
Ib Friis
31-47

Quaternary and late Tertiary history of Ethiopian vegetation
Raymonde Bonnefille and Alan Hamilton
48-63

A new palynoflora from an Upper Neogene lacustrine deposit in the NW Ehtiopian highland, Chilga
Kedamawit Yemane
64-67

Ethiopia in regional phytogeography
Ib Friis
68-85

The flora of south and southeastern Ethiopia
Mike Gilbert
86-93

Integration of a world heritage site in an agricultural environment in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia
Frank Klötzli
94-100

The interfaces of ecology, genetics and biosystematics in conservation
Endashaw Bekele
101-113

Comparison of the legume flora in Ethiopia and Somalia
Mats Thulin
114-119

Distribution patterns of Ethiopian Rubiaceae
Christian Puff
120-145

Preliminary studies on the ecology of natural coffee forest with emphasis on coffee (Coffea arabica)
Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
146-156

Dioscoreaceae of Ethiopia
Jacques Miège
157-158

Taxonomic problems in the Rosaceae
Olov Hedberg
169-172

The Umbelliferae — an impossible family?
Vernon H. Heywood
173-180

Fruit and leaf variation in the African species of the Umbelliferae tribe Caucalidaeae
Stephen L. Jury
181-188

The morphological basis for the inclusion of African species of Coreopsis L. in Bidens L. (Compositae – Heliantheae)
Mesfin Tadesse
189-203

Commiphora, some thoughts on the classification of an "impossible" genus
Kaj Vollesen
204-212