Taxonomic treatment of Chamaecrista sect. Chamaecrista ser. Coriaceae (Benth.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby (Leguminosae)

• Grant number: 13/09374-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: August 05, 2013
• End date: November 04, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Botany - Plant Taxonomy
• Principal Investigator: José Rubens Pirani
• Grantee: Juliana Gastaldello Rando
• Supervisor: Gwilym Peter Lewis
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 09/16434-4 - Biogeography of Chamaecrista Moench. and Filogeny and Revision of Ch. sect. Chamaecrista ser. Coriaceae (Benth.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby (Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae), BP.DR

Abstract

The current internship project research aims to consult and to analyse historical works and collections in Europe, centered mainly in the at Kew herbarium, England. In Kew is deposited one of the largest collections of legumes in the world and also the collection of George Bentham with various types of Chamaecrista, the group of study of the candidate. Her supervisor in the internship will be Gwilym P. Lewis who is one of the most influential taxonomists in the Leguminosae family. The close contact with him during this time surely will contribute greatly to the good scientific training. In addition to the herbarium at Kew Juliana will be consulted more 8 other herbaria in different locations in Europe. This stage of the PhD research will focus on the morphological analysis of the cited collections, aimed primarily historical review and classification of names, and the definition of species and infraspecific taxa. The compilation of all these data will enable the conclusion of the taxonomic treatment of Chamaecrista sect. Chamaecrista ser. Coriaceae, which corresponds to important chapter of her doctoral thesis. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RANDO, JULIANA GASTALDELLO; ZUNTINI, ALEXANDRE R.; CONCEICAO, ADILVA SOUZA; VAN DEN BERG, CASSIO; PIRANI, JOSE RUBENS; DE QUEIROZ, LUCIANO PAGANUCCI. PHYLOGENY OF CHAMAECRISTA SER. CORIACEAE (LEGUMINOSAE) UNVEILS A LINEAGE RECENTLY DIVERSIFIED IN BRAZILIAN CAMPO RUPESTRE VEGETATION. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES, v. 177, n. 1, p. 3-17, JAN 2016. (13/09374-0, 09/16434-4)

TEIXEIRA COTA, MATHEUS MARTINS; RANDO, JULIANA GASTALDELLO; MELLO-SILVA, RENATO. Chamaecrista petiolata (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae), new species from Diamantina Plateau, Minas Gerais, Brazil. PHYTOTAXA, v. 267, n. 1, p. 70-76, JUN 30 2016. (13/09374-0, 09/16434-4)

RANDO, JULIANA GASTALDELLO; PIRANI, JOSE RUBENS; TEIXEIRA COTA, MATHEUS MARTINS; LEWIS, GWILYM PETER. New circumscription, morphology and synopsis of Chamaecrista sect. Chamaecrista ser. Coriaceae (Leguminosae). BRITTONIA, v. 71, n. 3, p. 268-298, SEP 2019. (13/09374-0, 09/16434-4)