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1039 ZAMIA DECUMBENS: Cycadales, Zamiaceae
Summary Zamia decumbens Calonje, Meerman, M.P.Griff. & Hoese, a threatened cycad species from Belize, is showcased and illustrated based on field observations as well as plants cultivated in the ex situ conservation living collections of Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) in Coral Gables, Florida. This once obscure species was described in 2009, studied
Natalia Herrera‐Blitman +6 more
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Lords of the biosphere: Plant winners and losers in the Anthropocene
The impact of humans on Earth's biodiversity varies across the Tree of Life. The extirpation and extinction of species is often determined by compatibility with human activities. Here we classify, where data are available, a significant portion (~30%) of vascular plant species as winners or losers with respect to this compatibility and show that ...
W. John Kress, Gary A. Krupnick
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There are significant differences in the selection pressure of 12 genes and the evolution rate of 9 genes between conifer and non‐conifer. This difference seems to be not related to the loss of typical IR regions but related to habitat. And the newly obtained short IR region plays a role in stabilizing the genome.
Jingyao Ping +5 more
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Abstract Gymnosperms are among the most endangered groups of plant species; they include ginkgo, pines (Conifers I), cupressophytes (Conifers II), cycads, and gnetophytes. The relationships among the five extant gymnosperm groups remain equivocal. We analyzed 167 available gymnosperm plastomes and investigated their diversity and phylogeny.
Lubna +7 more
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Ceratozamia schiblii (Zamiaceae): A New Cycad Species from the Eastern Mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico
Ceratozamia schiblii (Zamiaceae), a new species endemic to the highlands of eastern Oaxaca, Mexico, is described. The new species is part of the C. robusta species complex, which is a group of closely related species with very similar morphology.
Miguel Angel Pérez-Farrera +6 more
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FIGURE 6 in Ceratozamia sanchezae (Zamiaceae): a new cycad species from Chiapas Highlands (Mexico)
FIGURE 6. Ceratozamia sanchezae. sp. nov. in situ. (A) Adult plant. Emerging leaves can be either light green (B) or reddish-brown (C-D) until maturation.Published as part of Gutiérrez-Ortega, José Said, Pérez-Farrera, Miguel A., Vovides, Andrew P ...
Santos-Hernández, Nancy Gabriela +6 more
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Heterocyte-forming cyanobacteria form symbiotic relationships with several lineages of plants. Here, twenty (20) strains of endosymbiotic cyanobacteria (cyanobionts) with Nostoc-like morphologies were isolated from the highly specialized coralloid roots ...
Melissa H. Pecundo +6 more
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Two major lineages of beetles inhabit cycad cones in the New World: weevils (Curculionoidea) in the subtribe Allocorynina, including the genera Notorhopalotria Tang and O’Brien, Parallocorynus Voss, Protocorynus O’Brien and Tang and ...
William Tang +14 more
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FIGURE 1. Cumulative summary of currently accepted Ceratozamia species (sensu Calonje et al. 2023) by year of protologue publication.Published as part of Haynes, Jody L., 2023, Critical review of "Monograph of Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae, Cycadales): an ...
Haynes, Jody L.
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