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Tibouchina granulosa Purple Glory Tree

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This document provides an overview of Tibouchina granulosa, commonly known as the purple glory tree. It describes the plant’s characteristics, including its moderate growth rate, dense foliage, and large, vibrant purple flowers that bloom throughout ...
Edward Gilman
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Invasive pine control promotes native plant regeneration, but with limited effect in the Cerrado, Brazil

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Invasions by Pinus represent major challenges for conservation and ecological restoration, especially in open ecosystems of tropical South America, such as the Brazilian neotropical savanna (Cerrado). Objective We evaluated whether the clear‐cutting and manual removal of Pinus caribaea reduce the impacts of invasion on woody plant
Graziela de Araújo Lima, Pedro Manuel Villa, Rafael Dudeque Zenni, Rodolfo Cesar Real de Abreu, Abel Augusto Conceição   +4 more
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The Global South's OCBIL Theory Helps Elucidate Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation in Biological and Cultural Diversity

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2026.
Ecological theory has been shaped disproportionately by studies conducted in young, disturbance‐prone, relatively fertile landscapes (YODFELs), mostly in the Global North. Yet, many megadiverse regions in the Global South are dominated by old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (OCBILs), resulting in fundamentally different patterns that ...
Stephen D. Hopper, Fernando A. O. Silveira   +1 more
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Consistent Buzz‐Pollination Posture Suggests Division of Labour Between Dimorphic Stamens in Bredia hirsuta (Melastomataceae) on Okinawa‐Jima Island, Japan

Plant Species Biology, Volume 41, Issue 5, September 2026.
Bredia hirsuta, a small pollen flower, is buzz‐pollinated by Amegilla dulcifera in a posture separating ventral gripping from dorsal stigma contact. The bee grips short‐stamen ventrally, while the stigma contacts the dorsal abdomen near long‐stamen anther tips.
Tetsuya Fukano, Tetsuo Denda
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Effects of Temperature Peaks and Water Stress on Tropical Seed Germination: Experimental Trials With Species From Brazil's Northeastern Coastal Zone

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Understanding the effects of high temperatures and water deficit on germination provides valuable insights into seed stress tolerance, guiding the use of native seeds in ecological restoration. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of (1) temperature peaks and (2) water stress treatments and post‐stress recovery on the germination of some ...
Hipolyana Simone de Oliveira, Alverlan Silva Araújo, Ingrid Lazaro da Silva, Ana Paula do Nascimento Prata, Flávia B. P. Moura, Luís Felipe Daibes   +5 more
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Invasive Melastomataceae in Seychelles [PDF]

Oryx, 1993
The Seychelles are the only high oceanic islands of granitic origin and their native vegetation is thus of considerable botanical interest. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries widespread clearance for coconut and cinnamon plantations resulted in native forest being confined mainly to montane areas. Cinnamon has proved to be very invasive in
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Wild Edible Plants in Angola: Diversity, Traditional Uses, Phytochemical Properties, and Socio‐Economic Potential

eFood, Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2026.
Wild edible plants (WEP) in Angola: number of species recorded by family and their distribution ranges; four of the most used WEP: Tamarindus indica (Fabaceae), Carissa spinarum (Apocynaceae), Adansonia digitata (Malvaceae), and Vitex doniana (Lamiaceae).
Claudete Bastos, Ângela Liberal, Margarida Moldão, Lillian Barros, Luís Catarino   +4 more
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The first complete plastid genomes of Melastomataceae are highly structurally conserved [PDF]

PeerJ, 2016
Background In the past three decades, several studies have predominantly relied on a small sample of the plastome to infer deep phylogenetic relationships in the species-rich Melastomataceae.
Marcelo Reginato, Kurt M. Neubig, Lucas C. Majure, Fabian A. Michelangeli   +3 more
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Dicrananthera hedyotidea C. Presl. (Melastomataceae) in Maranhão state, Brazil: first record and ecological niche model of the species

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 8, August 2026.
Dicrananthera C. Presl. is a monospecific genus of the tribe Marcetieae, comprising perennial herbs typically occurring in areas adjacent to wetlands. The species exhibits a disjunct distribution, with confirmed records in both the Amazon and Atlantic Forest domains.
Elias Julio Oliveira Correa, Sandro Márcio dos Santos Junior, Antônio Fernando Costa da Silva, Kalynne Nayara Lima dos Santos, Eduardo Bezerra de Almeida Jr   +4 more
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Eriope barrinhae (Lamiaceae, Hyptidinae), a new montane species from northern Minas Gerais, Brazil

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 8, August 2026.
In northern Minas Gerais, in the Monte Azul region, the Pico da Formosa mountain remains poorly explored botanically despite recent discoveries of new taxa. During fieldwork at the summit of this mountain, we discovered a distinctive population of Eriope that differs from all known species by a unique combination of morphological characters.
Danilo Alvarenga Zavatin, Luísa Azevedo, Renato Ramos, Jefferson Prado, Arthur de Souza Soares   +4 more
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