... probe pollen from the apical pores of tubular Melastomataceae anthers as far as their tongues reach and ... of this syndrome in 34 species of Brazilian Melastomataceae and records from other neotropical countries are presented. ... of the pollination and breeding biology of Amazonian Melastomataceae, I was impressed by the frequency with which ... to central and southern Brazil, the literature on Melastomataceae pollination, and personal communications from other students of ... confirmed that anther destruction is common in neotropical Melastomataceae. MATERIAL AND METHODS Melastomataceae are abundant as herbs, ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
1983 - Wiley | Biotropica
net ionIn the Neotropics, the Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae comprise over 3,000 species in 106 genera.Pollination observations have been reported for 126 species in 35 genera of Melastomataceae and for four species in one genus of ... Genetic self-incompatibility has been found in 22 Melastomataceae species, self-compatibility in 25 species.A single ... New World and some Old World species of Melastomataceae.The incidence of polyploidy in Melastomataceae seems high, but only about 8% of the species have been counted.Most Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae are hermaphroditic; dioecism is known in ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
1989 - Missouri Botanical Garden | Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
W. Paarmann, Burkhard Gutzmann, Philipp Stumpe, Hubertus Bolte, Steffen Küppers, Karsten Holzkamp, Clemens Niers, Joachim Adis, Nigel E. Stork, Claudlo R. V. da Fonseca,
... beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) at fruit falls of the Melastomataceae tree genera, Bellucia, Loreya , and Miconia , were studied ... 7 Notiobia species were found to reproduce at Melastomataceae fruit falls. The most abundant species, N. glabrata , was found to be a Melastomataceae seed generalise while N. maxima seemed to prefer ... Fruit falls of different species and genera of Melastomataceae appeared to occur at different times of die ... The seed‐feeding Notiobia species, which specialize on Melastomataceae, used fruit falls of figs as migratory “stepping ...
Tópico(s): Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
2002 - Wiley | Biotropica
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
W. Paarmann, Burkhard Gutzmann, Philipp Stumpe, Hubertus Bolte, Steffen Küppers, Karsten Holzkamp, Clemens Niers, Joachim Adis, Nigel E. Stork, Cláudio Ruy Vasconcelos da Fonseca,
... beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) at fruit falls of the Melastomataceae tree genera, Bellucia, Loreya, and Miconia, were studied ... 7 Notiobia species were found to reproduce at Melastomataceae fruit falls. The most abundant species, N. glabrata, was found to be a Melastomataceae seed generalist, while N. maxima seemed to prefer ... Fruit falls of different species and genera of Melastomataceae appeared to occur at different times of the ... The seed-feeding Notiobia species, which specialize on Melastomataceae, used fruit falls of figs as migratory “stepping ...
Tópico(s): Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
2002 - Wiley | Biotropica
Hanna Tuomisto, Kalle Ruokolainen, M. J. Del-Arco Aguilar, Abel Sarmiento,
... conditions. The two plant groups, pteridophytes and the Melastomataceae, were assessed in 2-m wide and 500- ... based separately on satellite image data, pteriophytes, and Melastomataceae, and the subdivisions were also related to topography ... trees: pteridophytes (ferns and fern allies) and the Melastomataceae (which are mainly shrubs and small trees). In ... and a sessile self-supporting gametophyte generation, while Melastomataceae are predominantly bee-pollinated and bird-dispersed). Any ... floristic inventory. Pteridophytes and members of the family Melastomataceae (excluding Memecylaceae) were censused within an estimated 2. ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2003 - Wiley | Journal of Ecology
A systematic analysis of the Melastomataceae, a pantropical family of about 4200–4500 species in c. 166 genera, and their traditional allies, the Memecylaceae, with c. 430 ... which there are two major lineages in the Melastomataceae and a clearly distinct Memecylaceae. Melastomataceae have close affinities with Crypteroniaceae and Lythraceae, while ... characters useful for higher level grouping in the Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae a cladistic analysis of the evolutionary relationships of the tribes of the Melastomataceae was performed, employing part of the ingroup as ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
1993 - Wiley | Nordic Journal of Botany
G. Clausing, Susanne S. Renner,
Melastomataceae are among the most abundant and diversified groups of plants throughout the tropics, but their intrafamily ... congruent topologies that place Memecylaceae as sister to Melastomataceae. Pternandra, a Southeast Asian genus of 15 species ... which five were sampled, is the first- branching Melastomataceae. This placement has low bootstrap support (72%), but ... in Memecylaceae and Pternandra, but not most other Melastomataceae, likely evolved in parallel because Pternandra resembles Melastomataceae ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2001 - Wiley | American Journal of Botany
... natural interspecific hybrid in 11 genera of Mexican Melastomataceae. These include first counts for 24 species in ... 10 or 8 and 9 haploid chromosomes. The Melastomataceae, a largely tropical family of dicots comprising 185- ... in the order with over 3000 species, the Melastomataceae have been poorly known cytologically. As of 1967, ... cytology in the angiosperms, Raven (1975) included the Melastomataceae in his enumeration of the 16 families in ... provide 59 meiotic counts for selected species of Melastomataceae from Mexico. Chromosome numbers have heretofore been reported ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
1992 - American Society of Plant Taxonomists | Systematic Botany
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Fernando A. O. Silveira, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, José Pires de Lemos-Filho,
... seed bank formation, and seedling establishment of the Melastomataceae in two Neotropical biodiversity hotspots, the Brazilian cerrado ... Atlantic rainforest. Studies on seed biology of the Melastomataceae are relevant because this family is ubiquitous, species- ... tropical forest and cerrado melastomes. Species in the Melastomataceae may be key in restoration ecology, and we ... banco de semillas y establecimiento de plantas de Melastomataceae en dos hotspots debiodiversdad, el cerrado y la Mata Atlántica. Estudios de semillas de Melastomataceae son importantes porque la familia presenta alta diversidad ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2013 - Missouri Botanical Garden | Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Eusébio Cano, A Ramírez, Ana Cano-Ortíz, Francisco J. Esteban,
... Sea. The study of the distribution of 675 Melastomataceae species led us to establish the biogeographical ranks ... 16 territories under study, we collected the endemic Melastomataceae taxa occurring in each of them and applied ... of a floristic and distributional study of the Melastomataceae endemic taxa of the Caribbean Islands, particularly on ... Caraîbes. L'étude de la distribution de 675 Melastomataceae a établi les rangs biogéographiques de Subrégion, Superprovince, ... territoires étudiés, nous avons fait des relevés des Melastomataceae endémiques de chaque territoire et appliqué l'indice ...
Tópico(s): Plant and soil sciences
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Acta Botanica Gallica
Hanna Tuomisto, Kalle Ruokolainen, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Robbin C. Moran, Catalina Quintana, Gstavo Cañas, Jorge Celi,
... composition of pteridophytes (ferns and fern allies) and Melastomataceae in Yasuní National Park, Amazonian Ecuador. Our main ... and (2) How many of the pteridophyte and Melastomataceae species are non–randomly distributed in relation to ... and 4893 individuals and 89 species of the Melastomataceae, were counted in the transects. Both with pteridophytes and with Melastomataceae, a clear negative correlation was found between the ... of plant individuals encountered in a transect. With Melastomataceae, species richness and species diversity also were negatively ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2002 - Wiley | Biotropica
Hanna Tuomisto, Kalle Ruokolainen, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Robbin C. Moran, Catalina Quintana, Gustavo Cañas, Jorge Celi,
... composition of pteridophytes (ferns and fern allies) and Melastomataceae in Yasuní National Park, Amazonian Ecuador. Our main ... and (2) How many of the pteridophyte and Melastomataceae species are non-randomly distributed in relation to ... and 4893 individuals and 89 species of the Melastomataceae, were counted in the transects. Both with pteridophytes and with Melastomataceae, a clear negative correlation was found between the ... of plant individuals encountered in a transect. With Melastomataceae, species richness and species diversity also were negatively ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2002 - Wiley | Biotropica
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Ana Paula Milla dos Santos, Carla Magioni Fracasso, Mirley Luciene dos Santos, Rosana Romero, Marlies Sazima, Paulo Eugênio Oliveira,
... Neotropical taxa is lacking. In this context, the Melastomataceae is a predominantly Neotropical angiosperm family with many ... study, the breeding system of some Campo Rupestre Melastomataceae was evaluated, and breeding system studies for New ... areas. The breeding systems of 20 Campo Rupestre Melastomataceae were studied using hand pollinations and pollen-tube ... was compiled for 124 New World species of Melastomataceae with either wide (>1000 km) or restricted distributions. ... arrest in the style, as described for other Melastomataceae, but most self-incompatible species analysed showed pollen- ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
2012 - Oxford University Press | Annals of Botany
Steven Jansen, Toshihiro Watanabe, Erik Smets,
... species, representing all tribes and subfamilies of the Melastomataceae as well as a few members of related ... Memecylaceae and in most primitive taxa of the Melastomataceae, while non‐accumulating taxa are widespread in the more derived tribes of the Melastomataceae. The variable distribution of Al accumulation in advanced ... is hypothesized that Al accumulation is symplesiomorphic for Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae, and that the feature characterizes the ... in a sister clade of the Memecylaceae and Melastomataceae, while Al accumulation suggests a basal position for ...
Tópico(s): Clay minerals and soil interactions
2002 - Oxford University Press | Annals of Botany
Lassi Suominen, Kalle Ruokolainen, Hanna Tuomisto, Nelly Llerena, Mark Higgins,
... well the species composition of the plant family Melastomataceae can predict soil properties in western Amazonian rain ... weighted averaging calibration via species indicator values. The Melastomataceae and soil data come from 311 localities widely ... western Amazonia. We use two different sets of Melastomataceae: a full set including all 283 observed species ... to be useful techniques to convert information on Melastomataceae species composition to estimates of soil cation concentration, ... In nearly all cases, the full set of Melastomataceae species gave more accurate predictions than the easy ...
Tópico(s): Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
2013 - Wiley | Journal of Applied Ecology
Susanne S. Renner, G. Clausing, Karin Meyer,
Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae are pantropically distributed sister groups for which an ndhF gene phylogeny for 91 species ... root phylogenetic trees obtained under maximum likelihood criteria. Melastomataceae comprise ∼3000 species in the neotropics, ∼1000 in ... closest relatives, tree topology, and calibrated molecular divergences, Melastomataceae initially diversified in Paloecene/Eocene times in tropical ... there spread to Madagascar, India, and Indochina. Basalmost Melastomataceae (Kibessieae, Astronieae) are species‐poor lineages restricted to ...
Tópico(s): Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
2001 - Wiley | American Journal of Botany
The wood anatomy of the palaeotropical Melastomataceae is described in detail on the basis of 134 samples of 107 species from 36 genera. On the wood anatomy, three subfamilies ... Astronieae have longest vessel members of the palaeotropical Melastomataceae, uniseriate rays, and bands of deviating fibres in ... s. (Axinandra, Crypteronia and Dactylocladus) is incorporated in Melastomataceae as a separate subfamily. The scalariform inter-vessel pits, present in palaeotropical Melastomataceae only, must be interpreted as a specialization from ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
1981 - National Herbarium of the Netherlands | Blumea - Biodiversity Evolution and Biogeography of Plants
The leaf anatomy of the Melastomataceae, Memecylaceae and Crypteroniaceae is surveyed on the basis of 179 samples representing 151 genera. The Melastomataceae appear to be leaf anatomically very heterogeneous. An ... the (sub)families and tribal delimitation of the Melastomataceae alliance and modifications suggested by Van Vliet (1981) ( ... Crypteroniaceae and also of the Memecylaceae. Within the Melastomataceae the Astronioideae (without Pternandra) are leaf anatomically so ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
1992 - National Herbarium of the Netherlands | Blumea - Biodiversity Evolution and Biogeography of Plants
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Vitor O. Becker, David Adamski,
The Melastomataceae are known hosts for many gallinducing insects and other arthropods.Tavares (1917), described 29 galls associated with various species of Melastomataceae collected from the mountains near Nova Friburgo, in ... Coleophoridae).Houard (1933) described over 80 galls on Melastomataceae from tropical America, making it the most common ... Coleophoridae) reared from galls on plants of the Melastomataceae from eastern Brazil.In addition, immature stages of ...
Tópico(s): Biological Control of Invasive Species
2008 - Entomological Society of Brazil | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
Kalle Ruokolainen, Hanna Tuomisto, Manuel J. Macía, Mark Higgins, Markku Yli‐Halla,
... when these are measured using trees, pteridophytes or Melastomataceae. However, it is not known to what extent ... and when the floristic patterns of trees and Melastomataceae were compared, significant correlations were found in one ... with significant Mantel correlations with trees, pteridophytes and Melastomataceae. Soil calcium and magnesium were most frequently retained ... idea that pteridophytes, and to a lesser degree Melastomataceae, can be used as indicators of general floristic ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2007 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Tropical Ecology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Fernando A. O. Silveira, Rafaella C. Ribeiro, Denise María Trombert Oliveira, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, José Pires de Lemos-Filho,
Abstract We investigated seed dormancy among species of Melastomataceae from Neotropical montane vegetation of Brazil. Four out ... first unequivocal report of seed dormancy in tropical Melastomataceae. The production of seeds with permeable seed coats ... evolved multiple times during the evolutionary history of Melastomataceae in this vegetation. Physiological dormancy evolved in species ... pressure favouring the evolution of physiological dormancy in Melastomataceae. We argue that dormancy may have been independently ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
2011 - Cambridge University Press | Seed Science Research
Marcelo Reginato, Kurt M. Neubig, Lucas C. Majure, Fabián A. Michelangeli,
... infer deep phylogenetic relationships in the species-rich Melastomataceae. Here, we report the first full plastid sequences ... was performed for 16 species spread across the Melastomataceae. Plastomes were assembled, annotated and compared to eight ... nodes received bootstrap values lower than 95%. Discussion Melastomataceae plastomes are no exception for the general patterns ... is a step towards phylogenomic analyses in the Melastomataceae and will be a useful resource for future ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2016 - PeerJ, Inc. | PeerJ
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Paulo José Fernandes Guimarães, Neusa Taroda Ranga, Angela Borges Martins,
Melastomataceae é a família que apresenta a maior diversidade de tricomas. Dr. Wurdack em seu "Atlas of hairs" reconheceu 46 tipos de tricomas para as Melastomataceae neotropicais com o uso de MEV, e referiu 17 destes para o gênero Tibouchina. Em Melastomataceae a morfologia dos tricomas tem sido extensivamente usada ... antecederam ao trabalho de Cogniaux, a monografia das Melastomataceae brasileiras publicada em 1885. Em Tibouchina sect. Pleroma ...
Tópico(s): Banana Cultivation and Research
1999 - Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) | Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Vinícius Lourenço Garcia de Brito, Fabiano Rodrigo da Maia, Fernando A. O. Silveira, Carla Magioni Fracasso, José Pires de Lemos Filho, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Renato Goldenberg, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato, Marlies Sazima, Vanessa Graziele Staggemeier,
... biotic interactions with pollinators and seed dispersers. In Melastomataceae, a dominant Neotropical family, the reproductive systems vary ... study, we described the reproductive phenology of 81 Melastomataceae species occurring in two biodiversity hotspots: the Atlantic ... biotic factors defining flowering and fruiting times of Melastomataceae species, considering the contrasting breeding and seed dispersal ... be shaped by the different reproductive strategies of Melastomataceae lineages, while fruiting patterns may be governed mainly ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
2017 - Wiley | Plant Biology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Lucas F. Bacci, Fabián A. Michelangeli, Renato Goldenberg,
Bertolonieae (Melastomataceae) have traditionally comprised > 100 Neotropical species in Bertolonia, Boyania, Macrocentrum, Monolena, Salpinga and Triolena and another six ... has been discussed since the first classifications of Melastomataceae. These tribes were always considered closely related because ... in different and geographically/phylogenetically distant groups of Melastomataceae. We conducted molecular phylogenetic analyses in order to ... and angular capsules has evolved several times in Melastomataceae. Besides the taxonomic changes proposed here, the molecular ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2019 - Oxford University Press | Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Johanna R. Jantzen, Prabha Amarasinghe, Ryan A. Folk, Marcelo Reginato, Fabián A. Michelangeli, Douglas E. Soltis, Nico Cellinese, Pamela S. Soltis,
... resources are not available for many clades, including Melastomataceae. We introduce a versatile approach to identify SCN ... enrichment in the distantly related Memecylon and Tibouchina (Melastomataceae). Methods We present a two‐tiered pipeline. First, ... MarkerMiner and transcriptomes from distantly related species in Melastomataceae. Published loci and genes of functional significance were ... phylogenomic studies in both clades and potentially across Melastomataceae. This pipeline could be easily applied to other ...
Tópico(s): Plant Virus Research Studies
2020 - Botanical Society of America | Applications in Plant Sciences
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Marcelo Reginato, Thaís Vasconcelos, Ricardo Kriebel, André Olmos Simões,
... for large clades of angiosperms. The plant family Melastomataceae is found on disparate habitats with different dispersal ... In this study, we reconstruct the phylogeny of Melastomataceae and gather data on their dispersal mode and ... driving diversification rates or range size in the Melastomataceae, suggesting a complex macroevolutionary scenario for this diverse ... diversification suggests a possible "past" key innovation in Melastomataceae. Future studies should investigate the role of other ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2020 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Marcelo Reginato, Fabián A. Michelangeli,
... primers were developed for phylogenetic studies across the Melastomataceae.Total genomic libraries from eight species in the Melastomataceae along with one transcriptome were used for marker ... success in taxa of nine tribes in the Melastomataceae. The new markers were directly sequenced for eight ... studies of systematics and evolution in the diverse Melastomataceae.
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2016 - Botanical Society of America | Applications in Plant Sciences
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
João Paulo Basso‐Alves, Renato Goldenberg, Simone Pádua Teixeira,
... position is considered a stable character in angiosperms, Melastomataceae species have perigynous flowers in which the ovary ... involved in variation of the ovary position in Melastomataceae. We focused on histogenesis of the floral apex ... superior ovary. CONCLUSIONS: Changes in ovary position of Melastomataceae are due to intercalary meristematic activity, which is ... for understanding the evolution of ovary position in Melastomataceae.
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
2017 - Wiley | American Journal of Botany
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Ana Paula Souza Caetano, Marcelo Reginato, Renato Goldenberg, Priscila Andressa Cortez, João Paulo Basso‐Alves, Fabián A. Michelangeli, Sandra Maria Carmello-Guerreiro, Simone Pádua Teixeira,
... has been reported in several angiosperm families, including Melastomataceae. The structure of anthers in Melastomataceae and taxa from its sister lineage was investigated ... by stochastic character mapping. The polysporangiate anthers of Melastomataceae exhibit two corrugated thecae with transverse septa of ... anthers occur in at least 74 taxa of Melastomataceae, in a unique association with poricidal dehiscence.
Tópico(s): Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
2020 - Elsevier BV | Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics