| 9.00-10.00 |
Registration, "meet and
greet" at the Carlsberg Academy. |
| 10.00-11.00 |
General part
- Prof. Axel Michelsen, The Carlsberg Foundation: Welcome to the
Carlsberg Academy.
- I. Friis: Introduction.
- Inga Hedberg: Thirty years with the Ethiopian Flora Project.
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11.30-12.30
Chair: Prof. O. Hedberg |
- M.G. Gilbert: The development of computer aided editing –
experiences in the Flora of Ethiopia and the Flora of China.
Taxonomic and floristic case studies. - P. Cribb: An assessment of current knowledge of the Orchid flora
of Ethiopia and its affinities.
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13.30-15.00
Chair: Prof. Sebsebe Demissew |
Taxonomic and floristic case
studies (continued).
- R. Polhill, M.G. Gilbert, D. Kirkup & Del Wiens: Loranthaceae
of North-East Africa.
- O. & I. Hedberg: Revising Callitriche in Tropical
Africa - the importance of chromosomes and pollen morphology in a troublesome genus.
- O. Ryding: An old scandal and its modern taxonomic consequences.
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15.30-16.30
Chair: Dr. R. M. Polhill |
Taxonomic and floristic case
studies (continued).
- Sylvia Phillips: Species delimitation in Portulaca sect. Portulaca
in East and Northeast Tropical Africa.
- R.B. Faden: The Commelinaceae of Northeast Tropical Africa
(Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti Somalia and Kenya): Diversity an phytogeography.
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16.30-17.00
Chair: Dr. R. M. Polhill |
Poster session:
- S. Bidgood: Ethiopian Economic Botany Collections 1995-1999.
- I. Friis: The identity of Polyscias lepidota Chiov. (1940)
– a name missing in Vol. 3 of the Flora of Ethiopia.
- Mesfin Tadesse: The systematic value of the phytomelanin layer in
achenes of Bidens L. and Coreopsis L. (Compositae - Heliantheae) with notes
on pericarp anatomy.
- I. Friis & Sebsebe Demissew: A new vegetation map of Ethiopia
and Eritrea – what should it look like?
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9.00-10.30
Chair: Prof. H.-D. Ihlenfeld |
Taxonomic and floristic case
studies (continued).
- D. Goyder: Variation in Gomphocarpus (Apocynaceae:
Asclepiadeae) in an African and a global context.
- Mesfin Tadesse: A cladistic analysis of morphological features in Bidens
L. and Coreopsis L. (Compositae – Heliantheae) with notes on the generic
delimitation and systematics.
- E. Fischer: Systematics, Ecology and Evolution of the tribe
Lindernieae (Scrophulariaceae) in North East Tropical Africa and adjacent regions.
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11.00-12.30
Chair: Dr. Mesfin Tadesse |
Taxonomic and
floristic case studies (continued).
- H. D. Ihlenfeldt: Fitting parts together – Pterodiscus
Hooker (Pedaliaceae) in NE Africa.
- Gebrehiwet Medhanie: The genus Kickxia sensu lato
(Scrophulariaceae) in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Exploration of the flora. - Sue Edwards & I. Friis: By whom and when was the flora of
Ethiopia and Eritrea studied? – a review of the taxa based on Ethiopian material and
the herbaria in which it is held.
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13.30-15.00
Chair: Dr. Inga Hedberg (carrying on to next session) |
Exploration of the flora
(continued).
- M. Thulin, Abdulnasser Al-Gifri, Mohammed Abdullah Hussein &
Saeed Gabali: Additions to the Yemen flora.
Biogeography and floristics. - K. Lye: Distribution patterns of Cyperaceae in East and Northeast
Tropical Africa with special emphasis on endemism.
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| 15.30-17.30 |
Biogeography and floristics
(continued).
- I. Friis & members of the FEE Editorial Board: What do the
published volumes of the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea tell us about plant distribution
and plant geography of the area …?
- An excursion to the historical Carlsberg Brewery (1847).
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9.00-10.30
Chair: Ms. Sue Edwards |
Biogeography and floristics
(continued).
- Sebsebe Demissew, I. Nordal & O. Stabbetorp: Endemicity of
petaloid monocots in Ethiopia and Eritrea: the Aloe example.
- Nordal I. & Sebsebe Demissew: Endemicity in groups of
Ethiopian geophytes.
- J. Fjeldså: Centres of vertebrate diversity in Ethiopia.
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11.00-12.30
Chair: Dr. Sylvia Phillips |
Ethnobotany and utilisation of
the flora.
- Elisabeth Hildebrand: Comparison of forest-growing and cultivated
varieties of Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman (Musaceae) in southwest
Ethiopia’s Bench-Maji zone.
- Zemede Asfaw: The origin and evolution of rural home gardens in
Ethiopia.
Vegetation. - Zerihun Woldu: The shrubland vegetation of Adwa, Northern
Ethiopia.
|
13.30-15.00
Chair: Dr. Ensermu Kelbessa |
Vegetation (continued).
- Sileshi Nemomissa & C. Puff: Vegetation of the Simen Mountains
National Park.
- M. Jensen & Ib Friis: Fire regimes, floristics, diversity,
life forms and biomass in wooded grassland, woodland and dry forest at Gambella, SW
Ethiopia.
- Menassie Gashaw: Soil seed bank dynamics of regularly burning
savannah woodland in Gambella, western Ethiopia.
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15.30-17.00
Chair: Dr. Olof Ryding |
Discussions.
- Discussion of draft of possible vegetation map for Vol. 8 of the
Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Introduced by Sebsebe Demissew and Ib Friis).
- Future projects: What after the Ethiopian Flora Project …?
(Introduced by Sebsebe Demissew).
- Closing of the Symposium
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| 19.00-22.00 |
Dinner at the Carlsberg Academy |