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Systematics and Evolution of Tribe Pyramieae

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Systematics, Evolution, and Ecology of Melastomataceae

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Pyramieae contains 68 species belonging to three genera: Cambessedesia, Huberia, and Merianthera. We review the systematics and evolution of Pyramieae, including the history of tribal placement of the genera, phylogenetic relationships, taxonomy with emphasis on morphological characters that define the tribe and its genera, and general ecology and evolution. The Brazilian members of Pyramieae are mostly microendemic to the eastern mountains of Brazil, predominantly found in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado. Cambessedesia has 25 species that occur almost entirely in the Brazilian campos rupestres. Huberia has 37 species, most of which are endemic to campos de altitude of the Atlantic Forest, with four of them endemic to the Andes of Ecuador and Peru. Merianthera comprises seven species largely endemic to granitic/gneissic inselbergs on rocky outcrops in the Atlantic Forest and two species to campos rupestres.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Mayara Caddah, Duane Lima, and Peter Fristch for helpful reviews of the manuscript. This work results from the project “Estudos Micro e Macroevolutivos em Melastomataceae no Brasil” (Edital Universal/CNPq 457510/2014-5). FAM received support from NSF (DEB-0818399 and DEB-1343612). LFB received support from NSF (DEB-SBS#2002270/DEB-SBS #2001357). RG received support from CNPq (‘Produtividade em Pesquisa’, #308065/2017-4). FA received support from the National Geographic Society (NGS 6173-98), the M. Stanley Rundel Charitable Trust, and Anonymous private donors (88882.382585/2019-01). Additional support from University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), the Florida Museum of Natural History, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, and the New York Botanical Garden is also acknowledged.

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    Thuane Bochorny & Renato Goldenberg

  2. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Lucas F. Bacci

  3. Institute of Systematic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA

    Fabián A. Michelangeli

  4. Department of Botany, Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Frank Almeda

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Bochorny, T., Bacci, L.F., Michelangeli, F.A., Almeda, F., Goldenberg, R. (2022). Systematics and Evolution of Tribe Pyramieae. In: Goldenberg, R., Michelangeli, F.A., Almeda, F. (eds) Systematics, Evolution, and Ecology of Melastomataceae. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99742-7_17

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