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Africa is a continent rich in biodiversity. It is endowed with vast resources of plants used by the people since time immemorial as medicines, flavors and fragrances. Of the 150,000 species of higher plants believed to occur in tropical countries 30,000 species divided into about 2,500 genera are found in Africa.
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In the ALNAP (African Laboratory for Natural Products) Database relevant published and unpublished documents, monographs, dissertations, conference proceedings etc, dealing with African plants are regularly entered with title, authors, keywords, abstract, biological activity, geographic area etc. The entries in the Database now exceed 12,000. As of September 2001, the ALNAP Database is on the Internet managed by the National Information Services Corporation (NISC) and can be accessed along with 13 other databases such as CAB Health Database, Medline etc. at http://www.nisc.com.
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Dagne, E. (2002). New Bioactive Substances Reported from the African Flora. In: Şener, B. (eds) Biodiversity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9242-0_9
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