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A new species of Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae) from Chiapas, Mexico [PDF]
Ceratozamia zoquorum sp. nov. from the northern mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, is described and illustrated. It has affinities with C. miqueliana Wendl. from Veracruz, but differs in leaf, male female cone and trunk morphology.
MIGUEL A. PÉREZ-FARRERA +2 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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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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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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Ceratozamia chinantlensis (Zamiaceae): A New Cycad Species from La Chinantla, Oaxaca, Mexico
Ceratozamia chinantlensis sp. nov., a new cliff-dwelling cycad species from Sierra de La Chinantla, Oaxaca, Mexico, is described and compared with its congeners.
Miguel Angel Pérez-Farrera +5 more
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Biodiversidad de Zamiaceae en México
Dentro de los grupos actuales de espermatofitas, plantas con semilla, las cícadas cuentan con el registro fósil más antiguo. A pesar de ello, su estatus como “fósiles vivientes” ha sido puesto en entredicho recientemente con base en resultados de ...
Fernando Nicolalde-Morejon +5 more
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A New Species of Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae) from Veracruz, Mexico
Ceratozamia morettii is described from a cloud-forest environment in Veracruz, Mex- ico. The main morphological characters are illus- trated, and comments on related species are made. The new species differs from others in the genus by the near prostrate habit, circinate vernation of the leaves, and wide leaflets with translucent ve- nation. This taxon
Mario Vázquez-Torres +2 more
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