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Acta Botanica Brasilica | 2013

Host plants of insect-induced galls in areas of cerrado in the state of Goiás, Brazil

Walter Santos de Araújo; Isadora Portes Abraham Silva; Benedito Baptista dos Santos; Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein

Most studies of the interactions between plants and gall-inducing (galling) insects have focused on the entomological aspects, few having addressed the diversity of galls in relation to the characteristics of the host plants. The objective of this study was to analyze the richness and composition of the community of host plants of galls in areas of cerrado (savanna) in the state of Goias, Brazil. To that end, we inventoried the galls in different regions of the state and within various types of vegetation formations, between 2005 and 2007. We registered 80 gall morphotypes in 58 species of host plants (30 families and 47 genera). The host family with highest diversity of galls was Fabaceae, with 17 morphotypes, followed by Styracaceae, with seven. In the cerrado, Fabaceae is the plant family with the highest number of species. Our results show that the composition of a plant community is a determinant of the distribution of galling insects. At the family or genus level, the presence of certain taxa increases the species richness of the population of galling insects.


Rodriguésia | 2016

Flora das cangas da Serra dos Carajás, Pará, Brasil: Cucurbitaceae

Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein; Climbiê Ferreira Hall; André dos Santos Bragança Gil

Six species belonging to four genera of Cucurbitaceae were found in the canga formations of the Serra dos Carajas (Para state, Brazil): Cayaponia tayuya, Gurania bignoniacea, G. sinuata, G. subumbellata, Helmontia cardiophylla e Melothria pendula. Detailed descriptions, comments, and illustrations of the species are presented.


Check List | 2016

Iridaceae from Serra dos Pireneus, Goiás, Brazil

Marcos Vinicius Dantas-Queiroz; Nuiawa Coelho; Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein

We present an inventory of Iridaceae species from Serra dos Pireneus, a mountain range with several distinct vegetation types within the Cerrado biome and situated in the mid-east region of Goias state, Brazil. The samples were collected in situ and surveys of herbaria were conducted. We found nine species of Iridaceae on Serra dos Pireneus, belonging to the following genera: Cipura, Gelasine , Sisyrinchium, Sphenostigma and Trimezia . This study provides a list of all species of Iridaceae recorded in this area including a brief diagnosis, a taxonomic note on Sphenostigma polycephalum , an identification key and an illustrated guide of Iridaceae.


Brittonia | 2005

Four new species of Cayaponia (Cucurbitaceae) from Brazil and Bolivia

Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein; José Rubens Pirani

Four new species ofCayaponia are described and illustrated: three from Brazil (C. cogniauxiana, C. nitida andC. rugosa) and one from Brazil and Bolivia (C. ferruginea).


Revista de Biologia Neotropical / Journal of Neotropical Biology | 2016

Efeito da cobertura de palmeiras e da distância da floresta sobre a distribuição de musgos na Floresta Nacional de Silvânia, Goiás, Brasil / Effects of palm trees cover and forest distance on the moss distribution in the National Forest of Silvânia, Goiás, Brazil

Éder Dasdoriano Porfírio Júnior; Walter Santos de Araújo; Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein

Facilitacao e o processo ecologico no qual uma especie favorece o estabelecimento de outra especie em um determinado ambiente aumentando sua sobrevivencia e reproducao. A ocorrencia de plantas facilitadoras pode ser importante para a distribuicao de algumas especies em ambientes severos, como e o caso dos musgos em ambientes com baixa umidade e alta temperatura. O objetivo do presente estudo foi investigar se palmeiras facilitam a ocorrencia de especies de musgos em uma area de Cerrado sentido restrito na Floresta Nacional de Silvânia, Goias, Brasil. Para isso foi testado o efeito da cobertura e abundância da palmeira Syagrus flexuosa (Arecaceae) em parcelas de Cerrado sobre a riqueza e abundância de musgos. Alem disso, foi testado se a riqueza e a abundância de musgos sao maiores em parcelas de Cerrado sentido restrito, naquelas localizadas mais proximas a formacao florestal do que nas parcelas mais distantes. Os resultados mostram que as parcelas com maior cobertura de palmeiras tiveram maior riqueza e abundância de musgos. Entretanto, a distribuicao dos musgos nao foi influenciada pela abundância de palmeiras, o que pode ser explicado pelo padrao de crescimento assimetrico de S. flexuosa. Alem disso, foi observado que as parcelas mais distantes da floresta apresentaram menor riqueza e abundância de musgos do que as parcelas mais proximas. Os resultados obtidos mostram que a associacao musgo-palmeira pode facilitar a ocorrencia de musgos em ambientes secos, como o Cerrado sentido restrito.


Biota Neotropica | 2011

Insect galls from Serra dos Pireneus, GO, Brazil

Walter Santos de Araújo; Benedito Baptista dos Santos; Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein


Brazilian Journal of Botany | 2010

Diversidade e estrutura comunitária de cerrado sensu stricto em afloramentos rochosos no parque estadual dos Pireneus, Goiás

Iona'i Ossami de Moura; Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein; Jeanine Maria Felfili; Heleno Dias Ferreira


Neotropical Biology and Conservation | 2012

Relationship between host plant diversity and gall-inducing insect’s richness in the Brazilian Cerrado

Walter Santos de Araújo; Benedito Baptista dos Santos; Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein


Acta Botanica Brasilica | 2015

Tetrapterys Cav. (Malpighiaceae) from Brazilian Midwest

Augusto Francener; Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior; Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein


Revista Brasileira De Farmacognosia-brazilian Journal of Pharmacognosy | 2010

Siolmatra brasiliensis (Cogn.) Baill., Cucurbitaceae, acute toxicity in mice

Aliny Pereira de Lima; Carlos Eduardo Barbosa; Flávia de Castro Pereira; Cesar Augusto Sam Tiago Vilanova-Costa; Alessandra de Santana Braga Barbosa Ribeiro; Hugo Delleon Silva; Neucirio Ricardo de Azevedo; Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein; Elisângela de Paula Silveira-Lacerda

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Nuiawa Coelho

Universidade Federal de Goiás

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Aliny Pereira de Lima

Universidade Federal de Goiás

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Augusto Francener

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

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Carlos Eduardo Barbosa

Universidade Federal de Goiás

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Claudiane de Menezes Ramos

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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