
Sabrina Mota Lambert, Eduardo Leite Borba, Marlon C. Machado,
Abstract Melocactus glaucescens (Cactaceae) is a critically endangered species endemic to north‐eastern Brazil. It grows in sympatry with ... characters in nine natural populations of M. glaucescens , Melocactus ernestii , Melocactus concinnus and two distinct morphs of putative hybrids ( Melocactus ×albicephalus ). Genetic variability was low in all populations ( ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2006 - Wiley | Plant Species Biology
Lucas C. Majure, Duniel Barrios, Edgardo Díaz, Lucas F. Bacci, Yuley Encarnación Piñeyro,
Abstract The widespread Neotropical genus Melocactus of approximately 42 currently recognized species, is most diverse in eastern Brazil and the Greater Antilles, especially Cuba. Species delimitation is ... exist. We generated the largest phylogenetic dataset of Melocactus to date based on plastome data derived from ... calibrated phylogeny revealed a mid‐Pleistocene origin for Melocactus , and we resolved three major clades, a Cuban ... effective for resolving clades and species limits in Melocactus , although future work will need to include broader ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2022 - Wiley | Taxon
Melocactus Link & Otto (31 spp.) is revised in Central and South America to include 24 species and ... specific epithets. The remaining 7 Caribbean species of Melocactus, which have not been revised, are briefly treated in an appendix.Die Arten der Gattung Melocactus (Cactaceae) in Mittel- und Südamerika. Die mittel- und südamerikanischen Arten der Gattung Melocactus Link & Otto (31 Arten) werden revidiert; im Gebiet ... der Artnamen. Die verbleibenden 7 karibischen Arten von Melocactus, die nicht revidiert wurden, werden in einem Anhang ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1991 - | Bradleya

Miguel A.S. Colaço, Roseneide B.S. Fonseca, Sabrina Mota Lambert, Cristiana Barros Nascimento Costa, Caio Graco Machado, Eduardo Leite Borba,
Foi estudada a biologia reprodutiva de Melocactus glaucescens e M. paucispinus (Cactaceae) no Município de Morro do Chapéu, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, sendo abordados aspectos da fenologia, biologia floral, polinização ... sistema reprodutivo das espécies. As duas espécies de Melocactus estudadas apresentaram sobreposição de floração ao longo do ... de polinizadores destas e demais espécies simpátricas de Melocactus favorece a hibridação no gênero, como foi observado na região. Melocactus glaucescens apresentou auto-incompatibilidade e alogamia, enquanto M. ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2006 - Springer Science+Business Media | Revista Brasileira de Botânica
Hany Lemus-Barrios, Duniel Barrios, José Ángel García-Beltrán, Salvador Arias, Lucas C. Majure,
Although Melocactus is the second-most diverse cactus genus in Cuba, there is still no consensus regarding species circumscription. ... In this study, seeds were evaluated for all Melocactus taxa known from Cuba, and seed morphological variability ... 14 accessions. Seeds of the native species of Melocactus of Cuba are small to medium-sized, which ... C. 2021: Taxonomic implications of seed morphology in Melocactus (Cactaceae) from Cuba. – Willdenowia 51: 91–113.Version ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2021 - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin | Willdenowia - Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Rosineide Braz Santos Fonseca, Lígia Silveira Funch, Eduardo Leite Borba,
This paper discusses the phenological strategies of Melocactus glaucescens Buining & Brederoo, M. paucispinus G. Heimen & R. Paul, M. ernestii Vaupel and M. ×albicephalus Buining & Brederoo, species from Chapada Diamantina, northeastern Brazil. Melocactus glaucescens, M. ernestii and M. ×albicephalus occur sympatrically ... peaks of activity), while fruiting was sub-annual. Melocactus ernestii exhibited an annual pattern of both flowering ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2008 - Springer Science+Business Media | Revista Brasileira de Botânica

Emília Cristina Pereira de Arruda, Marccus Alves, Gladys Flávia de Albuquerque Melo-de-Pinna,
... táxons de Cactaceae (Harrisia adscendens (Gurke) Britton & Rose, Melocactus × horridus Wedermann Notizbl., M. zehntneri (Britton & Rose) Luetzelb., ... helicoidal e o espessamento misto ocorre apenas em Melocactus. Os elementos traqueais foram medidos, mostrando que em Melocactus tanto a raiz como o cladódio, apresentam elementos ... as WBT essas são maiores no cladódio de Melocactus.
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2004 - Sociedade Botânica do Brasil | Acta Botanica Brasilica

Gulzar Khan, Fernando Faria Franco, Gislaine Angélica Rodrigues Silva, Juliana Rodrigues Bombonato, Marlon C. Machado, Diego Peres Alonso, Paulo Eduardo Martins Ribolla, Dirk C. Albach, Evandro M. Moraes,
... architecture of hybridization in four hybrid zones hosting Melocactus concinnus and four congeneric species (M. ernestii, M. ... confirming that even in the face of hybridization, Melocactus species maintain their genetic integrity. The genomic cline ... analyzed cactus species. Furthermore, as most of the Melocactus species are restricted in distribution, hybridization might negatively ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2019 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Gabriela Torres-Silva, Elyabe Monteiro de Matos, Ludmila Freitas Correia, Evandro Alexandre Fortini, W.S. Soares, Diego Silva Batista, Caio G. Otoni, Aristéa Alves Azevedo, Lyderson Fácio Viccini, Andréa Dias Koehler, Sheila Vitória Resende, Chelsea D. Specht, Wagner Campos Otoni,
... on their morpho-anatomical and cytological characteristics in Melocactus. The present study seeks to address the occurrence ... cacti tissues. Specifically, we aim to understand how Melocactus stem tissue is organized, how mixoploidy is distributed ... of in vitro culture. To analyze tissue organization, Melocactus glaucescens and Melocactus paucispinus plants that had been germinated and cultivated ... and hypodermis), cortex, stele, and roots. Mixoploidy in Melocactus is not related to the age of the ...
Tópico(s): Seed Germination and Physiology
2020 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Plant Science
Arthur C. Gibson, Kevin C. Spencer, Renu Bajaj, Jerry L. McLaughlin,
... the species described by Linnaeus and Miller are Melocactus communis Link & Otto has been classified in ten ... are men in 1601 (Heniger, 1973).Ho-w Melocactus, illegitimate, invalid, or incorrect, because presa New World ... cacti, epiphytes, were assigned to other new genera: Melocactus barrel cacti, dwarf growth forms, and the leaf- ...
Tópico(s): Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
1986 - Missouri Botanical Garden | Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

José Geraldo Aquino de Assis, Ana Lúcia Pires Cotias de Oliveira, Sheila Vitória Resende, Juliana F. V. Senra, Marlon C. Machado,
The genus Melocactus has c.35 species distributed in Central and South America, the centre of diversity of the genus being ... work chromosome counts are recorded for 11 species: Melocactus bahiensis (subsp. amethystinus), M. conoideus, M. ernestii (subsp. ...
Tópico(s): Cassava research and cyanide
2003 - | Bradleya

Sheila Vitória Resende, Alone Lima Brito, José Raniere Ferreira de Santana,
Melocactus glaucescens (Cactaceae) é espécie endêmica da Bahia e está incluída na lista da IUCN e MMA ... diferentes substratos e do enraizamento na aclimatização de Melocactus glaucescens. As plantas propagadas in vitro foram mantidas ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
2010 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE VIÇOSA | Revista CERES
Alessandro Borini Lone, Lúcia Sadayo Assari Takahashi, Ricardo Tadeu de Faria, Lílian Keiko Unemoto,
... temperatura e substrato na germinação de sementes de Melocactus bahiensis. As germinações foram analisadas nas temperaturas constantes ... condução do teste de germinação em sementes de Melocactus bahiensis são o substrato areia e a temperatura ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
2007 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ | Scientia Agraria
Jafet M. Nassar, Nelson Ramírez, Margarita Lampo, José A. González, Roger B. Casado, F. A. Nava,
The genus Melocactus comprises 36 species of globose cacti with the most derived traits in the Cereeae tribe. It is the ... the mating system parameters of two Andean melocacti, Melocactus schatzlii and M. andinus.
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2006 - Oxford University Press | Annals of Botany
Halyna Kalashnyk, N. V. Nuzhyna, M. М. Gaidarzhy,
... of 11 species of the subfamily Cactoideae (<em>Melocactus bahiensis</em>, <em>Melocactus curvispinus</em>, <em>Echinopsis eyriesii</em>, <em>E. ... em>E. mirabilis</em>, and the genus <em>Melocactus</em>), inulin-like inclusions, and occasionally lipid drops ( ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2016 - Polish Botanical Society | Acta Agrobotanica
Anath Bandhu Das, S. Mohanty, P. Das,
... INV) were carried out in 6 species of Melocactus of the family Cactaceae. Somatic chromosome number recorded 2n=22 in Melocactus bahiensis, M curvispinus, M robustispinus, M. townsendii and ...
Tópico(s): Cassava research and cyanide
1998 - International Society of Cytology | CYTOLOGIA
Katarzyna Sutor-Świeży, Sławomir Wybraniec,
... pigments were studied in edible fruits of four Melocactus species, M. violaceus Pfeiff., M. bahiensis (Britton & Rose) ... main pigment constituent, melocactin, endogenously present in the Melocactus species, was identified as betanidin 5-O-β- ...
Tópico(s): Phytochemistry Medicinal Plant Applications
2020 - American Chemical Society | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Eronides Soares Bravo Filho, Marlúcia Cruz de Santana, Paulo Augusto Almeida Santos, Adauto de Souza Ribeiro,
The genus Melocactus of the family Cactaceae, subfamily Cactoideae is com - posed of 38 species distributed in Brazil, Central America, the ... the largest number of species of the genus Melocactus occurs in Brazil. This study aimed to make a floristic survey of the genus Melocactus in the state of Sergipe and to analyze ... species of this genus, and a new one ( Melocactus sergipensis ), which is critically endangered.
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2018 - Fundación Miguel Lillo | Lilloa

Alexsandro Bezerra‐Silva, Sinzinando Albuquerque‐Lima, Tarcila de Lima Nadia, Isabel Cristina Machado, Lígia Silveira Funch,
... would affect the nectar production dynamics of four Melocactus species growing in the Caatinga domain. Nectar was ... 200 flowers per day. The nectar produced by Melocactus can therefore meet the daily energy needs of ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2023 - Wiley | Plant Species Biology
Karl J. Niklas, James D. Mauseth,
... apical meristems were measured during the ontogeny of Melocactus matanzanus and Trichocereus pachanoi . While some ontogenic features ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
1981 - Wiley | American Journal of Botany
Melocactus intortus is a species of strongly dimorphic plants whose different parts show strong correlations between structure ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1989 - | Bradleya

Nigel P. Taylor, Daniela C. Zappi,
... of phylogenetic hypotheses using the PAUP computer program. Melocactus, Coleocephalocereus (incl. subg. Buiningia but excl. subg. Lagenopsis), ... and Austrocephalocereus lack obvious autapomorphies distinguishing them from Melocactus and Micranthocereus, respectively. The superficial pseudocephalium present in ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
1989 - | Bradleya
... new names in Cereus, Pilosocereus, Arrojadoa, Coleocephalocereus and Melocactus are published. Species relationships in Melocactus are briefly discussed.
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
1988 - | Bradleya

Patrícia Soffiatti, Verônica Angyalossy,
... stems of several Brazilian endemic species of Arrojadoa, Melocactus, and Stephanocereus, all members of the tribe Cereeae. In Arrojadoa and Melocactus the unlignified parenchyma occurs in lines and bands ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2009 - | Haseltonia

Bernadete Pereira da Silva, José Paz Parente,
... 10(4), was isolated from the pulps of Melocactus depressus Hook by fractionation on Sephacryl S-300 ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
2002 - Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany) | Planta Medica
José Eugênio Côrtes Figueira, João Vasconcellos‐Neto, Maria Alice Amorim Garcia, Andréa Lúcia Teixeira de Souza,
The button cactus, Melocactus violaceus (Cactaceae), occurs in open, sandy soils in southern Brazilian coastal areas. The fruits of this species are pink, ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
1994 - Wiley | Biotropica
José Luis Retes-Pruneda, María de Lourdes Valadez-Aguilar, Martha Evelia Pérez-Reyes, Eugenio Pérez‐Molphe‐Balch,
... M. carmenae fo. rubrisprina, M. herrerae, M. theresae, Melocactus curvispinus, Escontria chiotilla y Polaskia chichipe . Como fuente ...
Tópico(s): Plant and soil sciences
2007 - Sociedad Botánica de México, A. C. | Botanical Sciences

Juliano Ricardo Fabricante, Leonaldo Alves de Andrade, Fábio José Marques,
... trabalho teve como objetivo caracterizar uma população de Melocactus zehntneri (Britton & Rose) Luetzelburg (Cactaceae) ocorrente em um ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2011 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA | Biotemas

Frederic Mendes Hughes, Marcelino de la Cruz, Roberto L. Romão, Marina Siqueira de Castro,
Melocactus ernestii Vaupel subsp. ernestii ocorre em afloramentos rochosos descontínuos no leste do Brasil. O presente estudo ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | Revista Brasileira de Botânica
J. Camilo Fagua, James D. Ackerman,
Abstract The pink, tubular, nectariferous flowers of Melocactus intortus (Cactaceae) in Puerto Rico are visited by native hummingbirds ( Anthracothorax dominicus ), but also by invasive honeybees ( Apis mellifera ) and ants ( Solenopsis sp.). ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Research and Applications
2011 - Wiley | Plant Species Biology