Edward Solomon Ayensu, Ghanaian botanist and economist (Sekondi 28 Aug 1935 – Accra 22 April 2023)

Papers / books with more than 100 citations

With J. Duke. Medicinal plants of China (1984)

Medicinal plants of West Indies (1981)

With A.L. Stoffers, B. Meggers & W. Duckworth. Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review (1973)

With J. Hutchinson, J. Dalziel, R. Keay & F. Hepper. Flora of West Tropical Asia (1972)

With D. Coursey. Guinea yams: the botany, ethnobotany, use and possible future of yams in West Africa. Economic Botany (1972)

Plant anatomy

Leaf anatomy and systematics of New World Velloziaceae. Smithsonian Contrib. To Botany 15 (1974)

With J. Skvarla. Fine structure of Velloziaceae pollen. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 101(5):250-66, 1974

Biological and morphological aspects of the Velloziaceae. Biotropica 5(3):135-49, 1973

With J. Vaughan & C.R. Metcalfe. Anatomy of the monocotyledones. VI. Dioscoreales (1973)

Aspects of the complex nodal anatomy of the Dioscoreaceae. J. Arnold Arboret. 50(1):124-37, 1969

With P. Tomlinson. Notes on the vegetative morphology and anatomy of the Petermanniaceae (Monocotyledones). Linn. Soc. London Bot. J. 62(1):17-26, 1969

Comparative vegetative anatomy of the Stemonaceae (Roxburghiaceae). Bot. Gaz. 129 (2), 1968

With W. Stern. Systematic anatomy and ontogeny of the stem in Passifloraceae (1964)

DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA

Genus

Nanuza with L.B. Smith

Sections

Vellozia sect. Xerophytoides 1976 with L.B. Smith

Xerophyta sect. Barbacenioides 1974 and Vellozoides 1974

Species (with Lyman B. Smith)

Barbacenia aurea 1976

Barbacenia bibiriensis 1976

Barbacenia burle-marxii 1976

Barbacenia chlorantha 1976

Barbacenia contasana 1980

Barbacenia culta 1976

Barbacenia cyananthera 1976

Barbacenia filamentifera 1976

Barbacenia latifolia 1976

Barbacenia minima 1979

Barbacenia nana 1976

Barbacenia nanuzae 1976

Barbacenia nuda 1976

Barbacenia pallida 1976

Barbacenia pulverulenta 1976

Barbacenia rectifolia 1976

Barbacenia reflexa 1976

Barbacenia salmonea 1976

Barbacenia saxicola 1976

Barbacenia sordida 1976

Barbacenia umbrosa 1976

Burlemarxia spiralis 1976

Pleurostima andersonii 1976

Pleurostima cylindrica 1976

Pleurostima delicatula 1976

Pleurostima hatschbachii 1976

Pleurostima monticola 1976

Pleurostima pabstiana 1976

Pleurostima spectabilis 1976

Vellozia bahiana 1976

Vellozia bicarinata 1976

Vellozia brachypoda 1976

Vellozia burle-marxii 1976

Vellozia caespitosa 1976

Vellozia caput-ardeae 1976

Vellozia castanea 1976

Vellozia costata 1976

Vellozia decídua 1976

Vellozia furcata 1980

Vellozia geotegens 1976

Vellozia harleyi 1980

Vellozia hatschbachii 1976

Vellozia lilacina 1976

Vellozia modesta 1976

Vellozia nanuzae 1976

Vellozia nivea 1976

Vellozia nuda 1976

Vellozia patens 1976

Vellozia pterocarpa 1976

Vellozia scabsosa 1976

Vellozia sibalata 1976

Vellozia sincorana 1976

Vellozia stellata 1980

Vellozia stipitata 1976

Vellozia teres 1976

Vellozia tomeana 1976

Vellozia torquata 1976

Vellozia wasshausenii 1976

Xerophyta concolor 1974

Xerophyta nutans 1974

Xerophyta concolor 1974

Xerophyta pauciramosa 1974

Xerophyta simulans 1974

Xerophyta zambiana 1974

HONORS

Ayensua L.B. Smith 1969 (Bromeliaceae)