STATUS OF KNOWLEDGE AND PROSPECTS OF STUDY OF THE IN SOUTH AMERICA

Prof. Dr. Aristônio M. Teles Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil [email protected] But... Who are Senecioneae? How can we recognize a Senecioneae?

Common features with other tribes of , but Senecioneae differs by:  Involucre commonly uniseriate (rarely bi or multiseriate), with or without calyculus.

Curio rowleyanus vulgaris sp. squamatum (involucre uniseriate) (involucre uniseriate) (involucre biseriate) (involucre multiseriate)

Pleased to meet you, Senecioneae How can we recognize a Senecioneae?

Common features with other tribes of Asteroideae, but Senecioneae differs by:  Filament collar straight and uniform or basally dilated with large cells.

Filament collar straight and uniform Pleased to meet you, Senecioneae How can we recognize a Senecioneae?

Common features with other tribes of Asteroideae, but Senecioneae differs by:  Filament collar straight and uniform or basally dilated with large cells.

Filament collar basally dilated with large cells. Pleased to meet you, Senecioneae How can we recognize a Senecioneae?

Common features with other tribes of Asteroideae, but Senecioneae differs by:  Anthers with endothecial tissue radial or polarized.

Radial Polarized Pleased to meet you, Senecioneae How can we recognize a Senecioneae?

Common features with other tribes of Asteroideae, but Senecioneae differs by:  Style apically truncate or convex, rounded or conical, sometimes with elongate appendage.

How can we recognize a Senecioneae?

Common features with other tribes of Asteroideae, but Senecioneae differs by:

 Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and sesquiterpenes lactones.

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids

Senecio brasiliensis – a poisonous species The numbers in Senecioneae

One of the largest tribes of :

. 150 genera presently recognized, and approximately 3,500 species (Nordenstam et al., 2009)

. In South America

 Ca. 32 genera (Nordenstam, 2007) and approximately 700 (?) species

. In Brazil  8 genera and approximately 96 species (Nokajima et al., 2010)

Where can we find Senecioneae species?

 They are worldwide, abundant in Central America, South America, Tropical Africa and South Africa. What’s the relationship between Senecioneae and the others Asteraceae?

(Funk et al. 2009) What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 The work can be divided into two categories:

I. Flora (national and / or regional) II. Systematic (taxonomic reviews and novelties) What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Floras

What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

Cabrera, A.L. 1957. El genero Senecio (Compositae) en Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay.  Floras Arquivos do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro 15: 163-264.

______. 1974. Compositae. In: Burkart, A., Flora Ilustrada de Entre Rios (Argentina). Buenos Aires, Colección Científica del I.N.T.A., 6: 106-540.

______. 1978. Compositae. In: Cabrera, A. L., Flora de la Provincia de Jujuy – Republica Argentina. Buenos Aires, Collección Científica del I.N.T.A. 10: 1-726.

______. 1985. El genero Senecio (Compositae) Ángel Lulio Cabrera en Bolivia. Darwiniana 26(1-4): 79-217. 19/10/1908 – 08/07/1999 ______& Klein, R. M. 1975. Compostas - Tribo: Senecioneae. In: Reitz, R., Flora Ilustrada Catarinense. Itajaí, Herbário Barbosa Rodrigues, 2: 126–222.

What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Floras D.J.N. Hind. 1993. Notes on the Compositae of Bahia, Brazil: I. Kew Bulletin 48: 245-277. ______. 1995. Compositae. In: Stannard, B. L., Flora of the Pico das Almas, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brasil. Kew, The Royal Botanic Gardens, 175-278. ______. 1999. The tribe Senecioneae (Compositae) in Bahia, Brazil, with descriptions of a new section and David John Nicholas Hind species in Senecio. Kew Bulletin 54: 897-904. ______. 2003. Flora of Grão-Mogol, Minas Gerais: Compositae (Asteraceae). Boletim Botânico da Universidade de São Paulo 21(1): 179- 234.

What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Floras – in Brazil

Nelson Ivo Matzenbacher

What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Floras – in Brazil

Aristônio Teles

What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Floras – in Brazil

Aristônio Teles

What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Systematic (taxonomic novelties and taxonomic reviews)

Harold Robinson 1932 -

Bertil Nordenstam 1936 -

What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Systematic (taxonomic novelties and taxonomic reviews)

Bertil Nordenstam

What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Systematic (taxonomic novelties and taxonomic reviews)

Bertil Nordenstam

What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Other taxonomic novelties to Senecioneae from South America What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Other taxonomic novelties to Senecioneae from South America What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Taxonomic reviews to Senecioneae from South America What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Papers about of Brazilian Senecioneae What has been done with Senecioneae in South America?

 Papers about taxonomy of Brazilian Senecioneae

Currently, what is known about the Senecioneae phylogeny in South America ?

Pieter Pelser

Currently, what is known about the Senecioneae phylogeny in South America ?

“The big challenge is the delimitation of Senecio s.s., as some problematic South American sections of the .”

(Pelser et al. 2007)

What is necessary to knowledge improvement about Senecioneae in South America?

 Promote talented students encouragement to study Asteraceae;

 Investments in collections and papers about Floras ;

 Investments in taxonomic reviews;

 Increase cooperation between Latin American researchers;

 Based in a large number of terminals, join the forces and make a more robust phylogeny.

REFLORA Project: an example to be followed

REFLORA Project: repatriation of the Brazilian Asteraceae

Coordinator: Dr. Jimi Nakajima (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil) Sub-coordinators: Dr. Aristônio Teles (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil) Dr. Nádia Roque (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)

Basic goal: repatriation of herbarium data for Brazilian Asteraceae (, Eupatorieae, Senecioneae, Vernonieae and basal groups) from P and K herbaria.

Thanks for your attention!

First Meeting of Brazilian Synanterologists

52º Brazilian Botanical Congress, July 22-28,2001, João Pessoa, Paraíba,Brazil