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Revision of Mezia (Malpighiaceae)
(2018-11)
The Neotropical genus Mezia (Malpighiaceae) comprises 15 species of lianas (except M. huberi W.R.Anderson, a shrub or small tree). All have multibranched, densely brown-sericeous inflorescences with the ultimate unit a ...
Pterandra viridiflora (Malpighiaceae), a new species from Brazil
(University of Michigan Herbarium, 2005-02-07)
Pterandra viridiflora, a new species from Brazil, is described and illustrated. The novelty
is distinguished by its green petals and the placement of inflorescences in the axils of well-developed
leaves.
Diversification history of Neotropical Lecythidaceae, an ecologically dominant tree family of Amazon rain forest
(Springer, 2020)
The Neotropical subfamily of Lecythidaceae (Lecythidoideae) is a clade of 10 genera with an estimated number of 232 species. Lecythidaceae is the third most abundant family of trees in Amazon forests, and its most diverse ...
Six new species of Hiraea (Malpighiaceae) from South America: H. andersonii, H. brevistipulata, H. holmgreniorum, H. kariniana, H. singularis, and H. woytkowskii
(2013-11-15)
Six new species of Hiraea (Malpighiaceae) from South America are described and illustrated. Hiraea andersonii (Peru), H. holmgreniorum (Brazil), H. kariniana (Ecuador), H. singularis (Venezuela), and H. woytkowskii (Peru) ...
Resolution of the Hiraea cephalotes complex (Malpighiaceae)
(2013-11)
The assemblage of specimens from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and western Venezuela that had been determined as a variable species, H. cephalotes Triana & Planch. (Malpighiaceae), was found to comprise seven species in addition ...
Despite introgressive hybridization, North American birches (Betula spp.) maintain strong differentiation at nuclear microsatellite loci
(Springer-Verlag, 2015-09-18)
Extensive chloroplast introgression has been documented in polyploid Betula species of eastern North America. However, the extent to which the nuclear genomes of these species are differentiated is unknown. Therefore, we ...
Post-agriculture versus post-hurricane succession in southeastern Nicaraguan rain forest
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-10)
Wecompared five-year old forests developing after agriculture to those recoveringfrom Hurricane Joan (1988) and to the pre-hurricane forest, at two sites intropical rain forest in southeastern Nicaragua. We used non-parametric ...
Revision of Ryssopterys and transfer to Stigmaphyllon (Malpighiaceae)
(2011-04-12)
Molecular evidence shows the Old World genus Ryssopterys (Malpighiaceae) nested within the New World genus Stigmaphyllon; therefore, Ryssopterys is here transferred to Stigmaphyllon as subg. Ryssopterys. The subgenera share ...
Sphedamnocarpus andersonii (Malpighiaceae), a new species from Madagascar
(2018-06)
Sphedamnocarpus andersonii, a new species from the Ihorombe Region of Madagascar, is described and illustrated. The twiggy, white-flowered shrubs are characterized by linear leaves, unique in the genus.