Taxonomic studies on the Eupatorieae in Brazil

Jimi Naoki Nakajima

Instituto de Biologia

Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Programa de Pós-graduaçào em Biologia Vegetal

World’s diversity

King & Robinson (1977)

Eupatorieae – systematic review

160 genera, ca. 2,000 species

Bremer (1994)

Eupatorieae

170 genera, ca. 2,400 species

Robinson (1996). Recent studies in the

Eupatorieae and Heliantheae

Hind & Robinson (2007). Eupatorieae

17 subtribes, 182 genera

ca. 2,200 species

Robinson, Schilling & Panero (2009) Phylogeny of tribe 19 subtribes

Brazilian diversity

Baker (1873)

17 genera, 335 species

Barroso (1986) 24 genera, 616 species (total 14 tribes, 196 genera and 1,900 species

Taxa Total Eupatorieae

genera 271 83

species 1.966 607

Third richest family in Brazil

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Eupatorieae is the first tribe in number of genera and species

What is the significance of this diversity?

45,6% of Eupatorieae genera in the world

27,55 of Eupatorieae species in the world

30,5% of Eupatorieae genera in Brazil

30,8% of Eupatorieae species in Brazil

40 genera occur only in Brazil (48% of genera)

440 species occur only in Brazil (72% os species)

And in Brazilian highlands?

Threatened species of the tribe

Tabela 4. Número e respectivo percentual de espécies de Asteraceae incluídas em cada categoria na

revisão da Lista Vermelha da flora brasileira (FUNDAÇÃO BIODIVERSITAS, 2007c). CA: categoria de

ameaça.

Espécies CA Nº de espécies

% (Lista) % (espécies ameaçadas)

Deficiente em dados Dados deficientes (DD) 213 50 Não ameaçadas Não Ameaçada (LC) 50 12 Ameaçadas de extinção Criticamente em Perigo (CR)

Em Perigo (EN) Vulnerável (VU) Total de espécies Ameaçadas

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Total de espécies da Lista 428 100

28 species threatened, 45 species Data Deficient

Táxon sp IUCN Estado

Agrianthus 2 CR BA

Catolesia 1 CR BA

Symphyopappus 1 CR MG

Planaltoa 1 EN GO

Stylotrichium 4 2 EN / 2 CR BA

Acritopappus 3 2 EN / 1 CR BA

Mikania 1 VU BA

Eupatorium s.l. 2 VU MG

Gardnerina 1 VU MG

Stevia 1 VU MG

CR – Critically endangered species

Catolesia mentiens

Agrianthus pungens

Symphyopappus reticulatus

EN – Endangered species

Stylotrichium corymbosum

EN – Endangered species

Acritopappus catolensis

VU – vunerable species

Stevia Mikania

Taxonomic studies of the

Eupatorieae in Brazil

Barroso (1950) – Eupatorium

225 species

Barroso (1951) – Trichogonia

18 species

Barroso (1958) – Mikaniae

152 species

Vision of a great botanist +

methodology of a brilliant bryologist

Matzenbacher (1979) – Eupatorium RS

49 taxa

Monteiro (1982) – Stevia serie Multiaristatae

16 species

King & Robinson (1985) – Comments

on generic concepts in the Eupatorieae

King &

Robinson

(1987) –

Eupatorieae

82 genera,

most of them

segregated

from

Eupatorium

Cabrera & Klein (1989) –

Eupatorieae from Santa Catarina

7 genera, 142 species

Ageratina adenophora

Nakajima (1991) – Stevia series

Paleaceoaristatae and

Pauciaristatae

18 species

Evaluation of microcharacters of

Stevia

Bautista (2000) – Systematic and

phylogeny of Acritopappus

19 species

Acritopappus santosii

Nakajima (2000) – Asteraceae Serra da

Canastra: 18 genera, 63 species

First use of King & Robinson’s system

Esteves (2001)

– Eupatorium

s.l. from São

Paulo

26 genera, 90

species

Austroeupatorium inuliifolium

Ritter (2002) – Mikania from Rio

Grande do Sul - 39 species

Mikania hirsutissima

Grossi (2006)

– Systematic

and

phylogeny of

Stomatanthes

17 species a priori

Paraphyletic taxon

Only 3 African species

South American species tranfered

to Hatchbachiella

Ferreira

(2010).

Taxonomic

review of

Lasiolaena –

8 species

Molecular

phylogeny of

subtribe

Gyptidinae

Kew Bulletin (1999)

Phytologia (1971)

Tribute

Novon (1998)

Next generation…

Caetano T. Oliveira – phylogeny of Mikania (Dr. Pirani)

Vanessa H. Righetti – taxonomy of Praxelis (Dr. Esteves & Dra. Esteves)

Vanessa Rivera – phylogeny and evolutionary diversification of Brazilian Eupatorieae (Dr. Panero)

Eric K.O. Hattori –phylogeny of subtribe Disynaphiinae (Dr. Batista & Dr. Nakajima)

Ana Claudia Fernandes – phylogeny of subtribe Ayapaniinae (Dr. Batista & Dr. Nakajima)

Silvana Ferreira - phylogeny of Giptidinae (Dra. Roque)

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