Lucia G Lohmann

University of California, Berkeley | UCB · Department of Integrative Biology

The campos rupestres and the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Inselbergs (BAFI) are highly diverse vegetation types that grow on mountaintops of eastern Brazil and show outstanding levels of endemism. The plant family Velloziaceae is an iconic element of these vegetations, with the genus Vellozia, being exceptionally abundant in both these vegetations. In...

Amorim, André M.A.; Amorim, Bruno S.; Amorim, Vivian O.; Andrade, Ivanilza M.; André, Thiago; Andreata, Regina H.P.; Andrino, Caroline O.; Angulo, María B.; Antar, Guilherme M.; Aona, Lidyanne Y.S.; Arana, Marcelo; Aranha Filho, João L.M.; Araújo, Andréa O.; Araújo, Camila C.; Araújo, Cintia A.T.; Araújo, Mário H.T.; Asprino, Renata C.; Assis, Fran...

A new comprehensive list of the Bignoniaceae from the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil As Bignoniaceae são um importante componente das florestas tropicais, especialmente no Brasil, onde a família é mais diversa. Apesar disso, o conhecimento desta família ainda é fragmentado em diversas regiões do país, especialmente na região Ocidental do Brasil. Nes...

The seasonality hypothesis posits that limited seasonal temperature variability in tropical mountains leads to greater climatic zonation along elevation gradients compared to temperate regions. This is predicted to result in narrow thermal tolerances and restricted dispersal for organisms, which may reduce gene flow and increase opportunities for c...

Amazonia (defined herein as the Amazon basin) is home to the greatest concentration of biodiversity on Earth, providing unique genetic resources and ecological functions that contribute to ecosystem services globally. The lengthy and complex evolutionary history of this region has produced heterogeneous landscapes and riverscapes at multiple scales...

Plant–hummingbird interactions are considered a classic example of coevolution, a process in which mutually dependent species influence each other’s evolution. Plants depend on hummingbirds for pollination, whereas hummingbirds rely on nectar for food. As a step towards understanding coevolution, this review focuses on the macroevolutionary consequ...

O Parque Estadual Mata das Flores (PEMF) é uma Unidade de Conservação de Proteção Integral situada no município de Castelo, ao sul do estado do Espírito Santo, entre as coordenadas 20°35'54"S e 41°10'53"W. Ele foi criado em outubro de 1992 pela Lei Estadual nº 4.617. O Parque ocupa uma área de aproximadamente 800 hectares com altitudes que variam e...

After Jean-Baptiste-Christian Fusée Aublet, the botanist who spent two years in French Guiana (1762 – 1764) under the auspices of Louis XV, other botanists and naturalists were sent to the region to look for useful plants, among them, Louis Claude Richard and Jean-Baptiste Leblond. The latter sent natural history collections gathered mostly from Fr...

RESUMO Amphilophium é um gênero da família Bignoniaceae que possui 47 espécies e saber reconhecer morfologicamente no banco de plântulas essas espécies é de suma importância à ecologia e manejo de florestas. Por isso, esse trabalho tem como objetivo descrever a morfometria, desenvolvimento além de ilustrações e distribuição geográfica das plântulas...

Background and Aim Plant disjunctions have fascinated biogeographers and ecologists for a long time. We use tribe Bocageeae (Annonaceae), a predominantly Neotropical plant group distributed across several present-day Neotropical biomes and with an African-American disjunction, to investigate long-distance dispersal mediated by frugivorous animals a...

A iniciativa Diálogos entre Saberes por uma Amazônia que Queremos oferece uma oportunidade única de disseminar as mensagens principais do Relatório para um público mais amplo através de uma linguagem mais acessível. Nesta iniciativa, SPA & Bori e a Nexo Políticas Públicas uniram suas habilidades em ciência e comunicação para amplificar a ciência so...

The combined use of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) with targeted loci data offers an excellent opportunity to reconstruct robust and comprehensive phylogenies at fine taxonomic scales using a hybrid approach. In this study, we infer the phylogeny of Cuspidaria (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae), a diverse clade of lianas and shrubs centered in South Amer...

Species of Tanaecium (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae) are lianas distributed in the Neotropics and centered in the Amazon. Members of the genus exhibit exceptionally diverse flower morphology and pollination systems. Here, we sequenced, assembled, and annotated 12 complete and four partial chloroplast genomes representing 15 Tanaecium species and more th...

The Amazon hosts one of the largest and richest rainforests in the world, but its origins remain debated. Growing evidence suggests that geodiversity and geological history played essential roles in shaping the Amazonian flora. Here we summarize the geo-climatic history of the Amazon and review paleopalynological records and time-calibrated phyloge...

Species with lianescent habit account for half of the diversity of Bignoniaceae. Recent molecular phylogenetic studies have provided the basis for new circumscriptions of entire liana lineages within tribes Bignonieae and Tecomeae s.s., where only monophyletic taxa are recognized. However, some clades remain without good morphological synapomorphie...

Species are the currency of most biodiversity studies. However, many shortfalls and biases remain in our biodiversity estimates, preventing a comprehensive understanding of the eco-evolutionary processes that have shaped the biodiversity currently available on Earth. Biased biodiversity estimates also jeopardize the effective implementation of data...

In this Review, we compare rates of anthropogenic and natural environmental changes in the Amazon and South America and in the larger Earth system. We focus on deforestation and carbon cycles because of their critical roles on the Amazon and Earth systems. We found that rates of anthropogenic processes that affect Amazonian ecosystems are up to hun...

The plant family Bignoniaceae is a conspicuous and charismatic element of the tropical flora. The family has a complex taxonomic history, with substantial changes in the classification of the group during the past two centuries. Recent re-classifications at the tribal and generic levels have been largely possible by the availability of molecular ph...

Although Argentina and Brazil are among the countries with the highest vascular plant diversity, the flora of both countries remains understudied. The Iguazú region, where the Iguaçu National Park (Brazil) and the Iguazú National Park (Argentina) are located, is an example of a region that remains poorly known botanically. Even though the Bignoniac...

Fridericia Mart. emend L.G. Lohmann is one of the largest and most complex genera of neotropical lianas comprising species that are morphologically variable and taxonomically complicated. Phytochemical investigation of leaves of Fridericia prancei (A.H.Gentry) L.G. Lohmann led to the isolation and identification of one alkaloid, trigonelline (1), a...

Realizamos um levantamento taxonômico da tribo Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae) para o estado da Paraíba (Nordeste brasileiro) com base em: (i) materiais coletados durante 24 expedições de campo mensais para diversos Municípios do estado; (ii) análise de exsicatas depositadas nos principais herbários da área de estudo (CSTR, EAN e JPB), Pernambuco (HST, P...

Realizamos um estudo taxonômico da Aliança Tabebuia e Tribo Jacarandeae (Bignoniaceae) para o estado da Paraíba, Nordeste do Brasil. Para este estudo, executamos: (i) 24 expedições de campo mensais para coletar material botânico; (ii) análise das exsicatas depositadas nos principais herbários da área de estudo (CSTR, EAN e JPB), Pernambuco (UFP) e...

speciesLink is a large-scale biodiversity information portal that exists thanks to a broad collaborative network of people and institutions. CRIA's involvement with the scientific community of Brazil and other countries is responsible for the significant results achieved, currently reaching more than 15 million primary biodiversity data records, 95...

The tribe Bignonieae with approximately 393 species, represents the largest tribe of Bignoniaceae. Most members of Bignonieae are tendrillate lianas, although some shrubs are also found within this clade. The Pico do Jabre, located at 1,197 m of altitude, represents the highest mountain in the state of Paraíba (Brazil) and an area of extreme biolog...

This Report provides a comprehensive, objective, open, transparent, systematic, and rigorous scientific assessment of the state of the Amazon’s ecosystems, current trends, and their implications for the long-term well-being of the region, as well as opportunities and policy relevant options for conservation and sustainable development.

Plant distribution patterns may indicate habitat specialization either by closely related species with conserved traits or by phylogenetically distant species with converging traits. Lianas represent a large proportion of the overall tropical species diversity and abundance. Despite their importance, little is known about the relationship between h...

The plastid genome of flowering plants generally shows conserved structural organization , gene arrangement, and gene content. While structural reorganizations are uncommon, examples have been documented in the literature during the past years. Here we assembled the entire plastome of Bignonia magnifica and compared its structure and gene content w...

Aim The biotic assembly of one of the most species‐rich savannas, the Brazilian Cerrado, has involved recruitment of lineages from several surrounding regions. However, we lack a clear understanding about the timing and pathways of biotic exchanges among these regions and about the role those interchanges had in the assembly of Neotropical biodiver...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiver-sity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxo-nomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedi...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedime...

Understanding forest dynamics is crucial to addressing climate change and reforestation challenges. Plant anatomy can help predict growth rates of woody plants, contributing key information on forest dynamics. While features of the water-transport system (xylem) have long been used to predict plant growth, the potential contribution of carbon-trans...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedime...

Taxonomic monographs synthesize biodiversity knowledge and document biodiversity change through recent and geological time for a particular organismal group, sometimes also incorporating cultural and place-based knowledge. They are a vehicle through which broader questions about ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes can be generated an...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedime...

The Atlantic Forest is one of the most threatened biomes in the world. Despite that, this biome still includes many areas that are poorly known floristically, including several protected areas, such as the "Floresta Nacional do Rio Preto" ("Flona do Rio Preto"), located in the Brazilian State of Espírito Santo. This study used a published vascular...

The Atlantic Forest is one of the most threatened biomes in the world. Despite that, this biome still includes many areas that are poorly known floristically, including several protected areas, such as the "Floresta Nacional do Rio Preto" ("Flona do Rio Preto"), located in the Brazilian State of Espírito Santo. This study used a published vascular...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedime...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiver-sity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxo-nomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedi...

Areas of endemism characterize geographical regions by their unique biotas, providing the basis for studies on the ecological and historical drivers of these biologically distinct units. Tribe Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae) are a highly diverse clade of lianas distributed throughout the Neotropics, representing an excellent model for studying the driver...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedime...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedime...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedime...

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiver-sity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxo-nomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedi...

This Report provides a comprehensive, objective, open, transparent, systematic, and rigorous scientific assessment of the state of the Amazon’s ecosystems, current trends, and their implications for the long-term well-being of the region, as well as opportunities and policy relevant options for conservation and sustainable development.

Tanaecium Sw. emend L.G. Lohmann (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae, Lamiales) is a genus of Neotropical lianas comprising 21 species distributed from Mexico through Argentina. Despite the medicinal and economic importance of several species of the genus, little is still known about the phytochemistry and chemical composition of foliar cuticular waxes of me...

This paper details the morphology and taxonomy of the 13 species of Lundia (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae), a Neotropical genus of Bignoniaceae. For each species we provide synonymies, a detailed morphological description, illustrations, phenological information, habitat and geographical distribution including a range map, notes on taxonomy and morpholo...

Identifying knowledge gaps and the potential biases and limitations of biological databases is essential for biogeographical research, to efficiently plan biodiversity surveys, and to accurately design conservation efforts. Here we describe the taxonomic, temporal, and spatial coverage of a comprehensive database mainly composed of data collected b...

Tanaecium is a genus of Neotropical lianas that includes many species with long white corollas pollinated by hawkmoths. The type of the genus is T. jaroba. Even though records of T. jaroba from Jamaica and Brazil were cited in the protologue, no corresponding specimens have been found. An illustration of T. jaroba constitutes the only original mate...

Background and aims – The genus Anemopaegma (Bignoniaceae) includes around 47 species and has its centre of diversity in Brazil. Here, we describe and illustrate a new species from French Guiana, Anemopaegma kawense, and compare it to the two most similar species, A. foetidum and A. granvillei. We further assess the conservation status of all three...

Fridericia is a conspicuous genus of neotropical lianas, with 60 species distributed among seven lineages that are broadly distributed through the neotropics in both dry and wet environments. As part of ongoing taxonomic studies of the genus, we provide taxonomic revisions of two clades: (1) the “Acrodromous venation” clade and (2) the “Piriadacus”...

Martinella Baill. is a genus of Neotropical lianas in tribe Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae). The genus is monophyletic and well supported by morphological and molecular characters. Members of Martinella are characterized by a continuous interpetiolar ridge surrounding the stem, bilobed or 4–5-parted calyces, and minute triangular prophylls of the axillar...

How cite: Ribeiro, R.S., Lohmnan, L.G., Soares-Lopes, C.R.A. (2021) Flora of the State of Mato Grosso, BRAZIL - BIGNONIACEAE. Field Guides, Field Museum, 1333, 10p. <https://fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/guides/guide/1333>

Aim There is little consensus on which environmental variables are best at predicting multiple dimensions of diversity. We ask whether there are common environmental correlates of diversity, despite ecological differences, across nine clades of plants and animals distributed along a single rainforest domain. For that, we compare the environmental c...

The urge to organise the world around us is an essential part of human nature. Naming and categorising enable us to store and access information ef ciently. The need to name and categorise extends to the natural world and, in particular, to living organisms. The science underpinning this area of knowledge is called Taxonomy, and is as old as humani...

Background: Astianthus is a monospecific arborescent genus of Bignoniaceae that occur in the Pacific Coast of central Mexico and northern Central America, where it grows in dense populations along riversides. Its phylogenetic placement has remained controversial since Astianthus has unusual morphological characters such as a four-loculed ovary, and...

Seed dispersal is crucial to gene flow among plant populations. Although the effects of geographic distance and barriers to gene flow are well studied in many systems, it is unclear how seed dispersal mediates gene flow in conjunction with interacting effects of geographic distance and barriers. To test whether distinct seed dispersal modes (i.e.,...

Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s biota are prompting urgent efforts to describe and conserve plant diversity. For centuries, botanical monographs — comprehensive systematic treatments of a family or genus — have been the gold standard for disseminating scientific information to accelerate research. The lack of a monograph compounds the risk tha...