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| Autor(es): |
Kotina, Ekaterina L.
[1]
;
Fiaschi, Pedro
[2]
;
Plunkett, Gregory M.
[3]
;
Oskolski, Alexei A.
[1, 4]
Número total de Autores: 4
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| Afiliação do(s) autor(es): | [1] Russian Acad Sci, Bot Museum, VL Komarov Bot Inst, St Petersburg 197376 - Russia
[2] Univ Fed Santa Catarina, Dept Bot, Ctr Ciencias Biol, BR-88040900 Florianopolis, SC - Brazil
[3] New York Bot Garden, Cullman Program Mol Systemat, Bronx, NY 10458 - USA
[4] Univ Johannesburg, Dept Bot & Plant Biotechnol, ZA-2006 Johannesburg - South Africa
Número total de Afiliações: 4
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| Tipo de documento: | Artigo Científico |
| Fonte: | Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society; v. 173, n. 3, p. 452-475, NOV 2013. |
| Citações Web of Science: | 1 |
| Resumo | |
Wood anatomy has been investigated from 35 species belonging to the Neotropical clade of the polyphyletic genus Schefflera (Araliaceae), representing three of the five subgroups (Didymopanax, Crepinella and Sciodaphyllum). The species examined are rather uniform in their wood structure, sharing the presence of scalariform and simple perforation plates, septate fibres and scanty paratracheal axial parenchyma. The observed variation in many wood characters showed statistically significant differences relative to latitude, climate and, especially, vegetation types. In particular, the intervessel pits are larger in species from higher latitudes and in seasonally dry habitats than those from lower latitudes and rainforests. Latitudinal and ecological trends in the variation of vessel element lengths, bar numbers on perforation plates, intervessel pit sizes and ray widths may be at least partially explained as effects of adaptation to drier environments in the course of dispersal outside the Amazonian region and diversification in the Atlantic Forest subclade and the Savannic subclade within the Didymopanax group. The occurrence of a granular annulus on the intervessel pit membranes in S.chimantensis and S.sprucei (both of the Crepinella group) is the first record of this feature in Araliaceae. In comparisons of Neotropical Schefflera with the other major clades of Schefflera sensu lato, wood anatomical diversity is consistent with the polyphyly of this genus based on molecular phylogenetic analyses.(c) 2013 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2013, 173, 452-475. (AU) | |
| Processo FAPESP: | 10/02814-7 - Áreas de endemismo na Mata Atlântica: uma análise com angiospermas |
| Beneficiário: | Pedro Fiaschi |
| Modalidade de apoio: | Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado |