graduate at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (1983), master's at Botany from Universidade de São Paulo (1989) and ph.d. at Botany from Universidade de São Paulo (1996). Has experience in Botany, acting on the following subjects: velloziaceae, cadeia do espinhaço, annonaceae, apocynaceae and filogenia. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Angiosperms are a morphologically and distinctive group, easily recognizable by the flower, which is also one of its most important evolutionary novelties. Flower characters have been historically widely used in taxonomy, mostly for identification purposes, and recently, also for phylogenetic reconstructions and monophyletic groups delimitation. Despite this, a high level of homoplasies i…
The recent integrative approaches available with the outcoming well-resolved phylogenies and the accumulation of distribution, morphological and ecological data sets are reviving the interest for the study of diversification of organisms. To use this approach to study Neotropical groups is particularly interesting because of the huge diversity of species in this region of the Earth. Histo…
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Velloziaceae currently comprises five genera and approx. 250 species, with mainly amphiatlantic distribution. The majority of the species is present Neotropical region, and in Brazil, the family is represented by Barbacenia and Vellozia, comprising 213 species. Over the years, delimitation of the genera, and also at infrageneric levels, caused controversy among taxonomists. In recent phyl…
Flowers have a high diversity of sexual systems. The rarest among them is androdioecy, with few known cases, in which species present individuals with male flowers and others with bisexual flowers. The majority of androdioecious species has evolved from dioecious ancestors, usually being herbaceous plants with recurrent local extinction followed by re-colonization. Nevertheless, there are…
Iridaceae are a morphologically distinctive and diverse family of monocotyledons. The flowers in the family vary greatly in shape, size and ornamentation and this diversity has been historically providing important taxonomic characters. Within tribe Trimezieae, style and stigma are especially diverse and elaborate structures widely used in the group taxonomy, usually associated to other f…
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Velloziaceae comprises five genera and approx. 250 species, mostly amphiatlantic. The majority of species is Neotropical, and in Brazil, the family is represented by Barbacenia and Vellozia, comprising 213 species. In recent phylogenetic reconstructions using Bayesian and Parsimony inferences, Barbacenia formed two basal clades. One of them, the Barbacenia inselbergs clade, comprises only…
Flowers have a high diversity of sexual systems. The rarest among them is androdioecy, with few known cases, in which species present individuals with male flowers and others with bisexual flowers. The majority of androdioecious species has evolved from dioecious ancestors, usually being herbaceous plants with recurrent local extinction followed by re-colonization. Nevertheless, there are…
Iridaceae are a morphologically distinctive yet highly diverse family of monocotyledons. In particular, the flowers vary greatly in size, shape, and ornamentation. Floral diversity has traditionally been an important source of taxonomic characters. Within the tribe Trimezieae style and stigma morphology is especially diverse. These structures have therefore been used, usually in associati…
(Only some records are available in English at this moment)
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