Seeds of Threatened Trees and Palms from Rio Grande Do Sul, BRAZIL 1 Leandro Dal Ri¹; Nicole Rosa²; Josy Zarur De Matos¹; Thais Padilha²

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Seeds of threatened trees and palms from Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL 1 Leandro Dal Ri¹; Nicole Rosa²; Josy Zarur de Matos¹; Thais Padilha² ¹ Fundação Zoobotânica do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, Av. Dr. Salvador França, 1427, Porto Alegre, 90690-000 ² Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, 90650-970 Pictures taken in the Morphological seed analysis Laboratory – Seed bank of Botanic Garden of Porto Alegre, RS, BRAZIL. Produced by: Juliana Philipp & Cassie Kelsey © Leandro Dal Ri[[email protected]]; Forestry, Msc. in Botany. [fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org] [1142] version 1 7/2019 1 Annona cacans Warm. 2 Annona neosericea H. Rainer 3 Duguetia lanceolata A. St.-Hil. Spreng. 4 Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco Schltr. ANNONACEAE (VU) ANNONACEAE (CR) ANNONACEAE (EN) APOCYNACEAE (EN) 5 Aspidosperma riedelii Müll. Arg. 6 Rauvolfia sellowii Müll. Arg. 7 Aralia warmingiana (Marchal) J. Wen. 8 Butia catarinensis Noblick & Lorenzi APOCYNACEAE (CR) APOCYNACEAE (EN) ARALIACEAE (VU) ARACACEAE (CR) 9 Butia witeckii K. Soares & Longhi 10 Trithrinax brasiliensis Mart. 11 Gleditsia amorphoides (Griseb.) Taub. 12 Myrocarpus frondosus Allemão ARACACEAE (CR) ARACACEAE (CR) FABACEAE (EN) FABACEAE (VU) Seeds of threatened trees and palms from Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL 2 Leandro Dal Ri¹; Nicole Rosa²; Josy Zarur de Matos¹; Thais Padilha² ¹ Fundação Zoobotânica do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, Av. Dr. Salvador França, 1427, Porto Alegre, 90690-000 ² Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, 90650-970 Pictures taken in the Morphological seed analysis Laboratory – Seed bank of Botanic Garden of Porto Alegre, RS, BRAZIL. Produced by: Juliana Philipp & Cassie Kelsey © Leandro Dal Ri[[email protected]]; Forestry, Msc. in Botany. [fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org] [1142] version 1 7/2019 13 Prosopis affinis A. St-Hill Spreng. 14 Persea willdenovii A. St.-Hill Spreng. 15 Magnolia ovata A. St-Hill Spreng. 16 Virola bicuhyba (Schott ex Spreng.) Warb. (CR) FABACEAE (VU) LAURACEAE MAGNOLIACEAE (EN) MYRISTICACEAE (EN) 17 Campomanesia guaviroba (DC.) Kiaersk. 18 Eugenia rotundicosta D. Legrand. 19 Psidium longipetiolatum D. Legrand. 20 Heisteria silvianii Schwacke (EN) MYRTACEAE (CR) MYRTACEAE (CR) MYRTACEAE (EN) ERYTHROPALACEAE 21 Agonandra excelsa Griseb. 22 Margaritaria nobilis H. Rainer 23 Rhamnus sphaerosperma Sw. 24 Picrasma crenata (Vell.) Engl. OPILIACEAE (VU) PHYLLANTHACEAE (CR) RHAMNACEAE (EN) SIMAROUBACEAE (VU) .

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