Graduate at Biological Scinces - Universidade de São Paulo (1979), Master's in Botany - Universidade de São Paulo (1982), Ph.D Botany - Universidade de São Paulo (1989). Experience in Botany, focusing on Plant Systematics, developing research projects on: 1. floristics and phytogeography of montane vegetation in Minas Gerais and Bahia, Brazil; and 2. systematics, phylogeny, structural evolution, diversification and biogeography of members of the Order Sapindales, mainly Rutaceae and Simaroubaceae. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Herbaria and their components (exsiccates, xylaria, fruit collections, spirit collections and samples preserved in silica gel) play a central role in biological research, providing the basis for studies way beyond Taxonomy, since several areas of science demand high quality data that may be obtained from biological collections. Access to the massive amount of records from herbaria represe…
Dr Jenifer Carvalho Lopes Dantas has collaboration projetcs underway in the SPF herbarium from IBUSP, where she helped to build the rich collection of Vellozia (Velloziaceae). In the next visit, her research goals are: (i) a synopses for the genus Vellozia, which was carried out by the deceased Prof. Renato de Mello-Silva in the SPF; (ii) a new infrageneric clasification based on the phyl…
Regions with high levels of species richness and endemism in the globe have called major attention of scientists for at least two centuries. The Neotropics is the most representative region in these terms, comprising a "giant puzzle" of different heterogeneous environments, each one with a set of endemic species that have arisen as a consequence of both geological and short-time scale dri…
Sapindales are currently considered a monophyletic group, and are part of Eudicots Malvids. This order comprises nine families, ca. 5200 species, 473 genera, mostly occurring in tropical and temperate regions of the world. About 40% of Sapindales species diversity is concentrated in the Neotropical region, where the order is represented by six families (Anacardiaceae, Burseraceae, Meliace…
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Luxemburgia constitutes the only Brazilian endemic genus of Ochnaceae, composed of ca. 20 species distributed mainly in campo rupestre vegetation in Minas Gerais. Taxonomically relevant characters in the genus are associated with leaves, especially venation patterns and stipules form, and inflorescences, mainly related to bracts and bracteoles traits. Nevertheless, as those attributes dis…
There is evidence that the Atlantic Forest and the Amazon were connected in wetter periods of the past, having common floristic elements, such as the genus Euterpe (Arecaceae). These palm trees play a fundamental role in neotropical forests, both in ecological and economic terms. However, one of the main threats to these ecosystems is represented by invasive species, in particular congene…
This research is part from the project "Flora Fanerogâmica do Estado de São Paulo", coordinated by the Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais of the state of São Paulo. The focus of this research is a taxonomic treatment of the tribes elnging to theHeliantheae Alliance (Asteraceae) for the state. Asteraceae is one of the largest plant families and is represented in São Paulo by 190 genera and …
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This work is part of the project "Flora Fanerogâmica do Estado de São Paulo", coordinated by Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais of São Paulo State, and is also associated too project entitled "Diversificação e aprimoramento dos registros das coleções de herbários paulistas, com a ampliação da sua disponibilização virtual e análises espaciais, para avanço na documentação da biodiversidade N…
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The "cacao group" is composed by 38 species of Amazonian trees from the genera Theobroma L. and Herrania Goudot (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae). Both genera gather c. 11,300 thousand specimen collections found at herbaria, and almost half of these samples, i.e., 5,400 (48% of all exsiccates), are found at American collections of New York, Washington DC, Saint Louis and Chicago. Concurrently, …
The Neotropics comprises different heterogeneous environments harboring a set of endemic species that have arisen as consequence of both geological and short-time scale drivers. The tribe Sauvagesieae (Ochnaceae) is one of those groups and its greatest species richness occurs in mountain areas within the region, i.e., along the Brazilian Espinhaço Range, the Amazon-Guyana region, and some…
Mapping biogeographical patterns is essential to understand the evolution and diversification of lineages, especially in currently understudied taxonomic groups, such as the plant family Malvaceae. The family is particularly diverse in the Neotropics, with a high number of species endemic to this region, but currently is unclear if the existing network of protected areas network offers su…
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