Matheus Colli-Silva

Federal University of Pernambuco | UFPE · Center of Biological Sciences (CCB)

Journal: Journal of Biogeography Aim: The Brazilian campo rupestre is a vegetation associated to ancient mountaintops in eastern South America, spread mainly over disjunct areas of the Espinhaço Range and the Chapada dos Veadeiros. These areas hold outstanding levels of plant diversity and endemism, but despite their uniqueness they have been negle...

Amazonia, one of the largest and most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, is a significant yet less-known arena for ancient plant domestication. Here, we traced the origins of cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum), an Amazonian tree crop closely related to cacao (T. cacao), cherished for its flavorful seed-pulp, by employing an extensive genomic analysis ba...

Cacao (Theobroma cacao, Malvaceae) is an important tree crop in Africa and in the Americas. Current genomic evidence suggests that its original range in Tropical Americas was smaller than its current distribution and that human-mediated dispersal occurred before European colonization. This includes regions like Mesoamerica and Eastern Amazonia wher...

Crop wild relatives (CWRs) of cultivated species may provide a source of genetic variation that can contribute to improving product quantity and quality. To adequately use these potential resources, it is useful to understand how CWRs are related to the cultivated species and to each other to determine how key crop traits have evolved and discover...

More than 15% of all vascular plant species may remain scientifically undescribed, and many of the > 350 000 described species have no or few geographic records documenting their distribution. Identifying and understanding taxonomic and geographic knowledge shortfalls is key to prioritising future collection and conservation efforts. Using extensiv...

Byttneria irwinii (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae) is a species primarily restricted to Cerrado vegetations in Central Brazil, yet it remains poorly represented in herbarium collections. The first descriptions, derived solely from specimens originating from Nova Xavantina in the Eastern region of Mato Grosso state, Central-West Brazil, are supplemented...

Catálogo de Plantas das Unidades de Conservação do Brasil: listas de espécies dos Parques Nacionais do Descobrimento, Histórico do Monte Pascoal e Pau Brasil, Bahia, Brasil. Poster presented at the 74th National Congress of Botany in Brasília, Brazil.

Societal Impact Statement Biological samples and their associated information are an essential resource used by scientists, governments, policymakers, practitioners and communities to ensure that biodiversity can be appropriately protected and sustainably used. Yet, considering the enormous task of documenting the vast numbers of as‐yet‐unknown pla...

During the preparation of a taxonomic revision of Theobroma sensu lato (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae), three new species of T. sect. Herrania were found: Theobroma globosum, T. nervosum and T. schultesii, which are described herein. Theobroma globosum and T. nervosum belong to T. sect. Herrania subsect. Subcymbicalyx, with species mostly found in the...

This unpublished text is related to our recently published paper in Communications Earth and Environment and serves as a response to a critique submitted by Clement et al. to the journal's Matters Arising section. Both the critique and our reply underwent peer review. However, the editorial team decided to reject publishing the exchange, largely ag...

Theobroma (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae), the cacao genus, has a taxonomic history spanning over two centuries. Currently, it comprises 23 species of trees from lowland forests from the Tropical Americas. Herrania, a closely related genus described later, includes 17 additional species commonly referred to as "wild cacaos." Phylogenetic relationships...

COLE TCH, COLLI-SILVA M (2024) Filogenia das MALVACEAE - 50 Gêneros Selecionados da Família da Malva © Cole, Colli-Silva 2024 (CC-BY), Portuguese version of: COLE TCH (2024) MALVACEAE PHYLOGENY POSTER (MalvaPP) • árvore filogenética hipotética baseada em evidências moleculares • filogenia e classificação de acordo com as referências listadas abaixo...

O Parque Nacional do Descobrimento (PND) é uma Unidade de Conservação de Proteção Integral localizada no município de Prado, extremo sul da Bahia. Foi criado por Decreto Presidencial em 20 de abril de 1999 e ampliado em 5 de junho de 2012. Abrange uma área de 22.607,74 hectares entre as coordenadas 16º55’ e 17º15’ de latitude Sul; e 39º25’ e 40º10’...

O Parque Nacional Histórico do Monte Pascoal (PNHMP) é uma Unidade de Conservação de Proteção Integral criada pelo Decreto nº 242/1961 e renomeado pelo Decreto nº 3.421/2000. Está localizado no extremo sul da Bahia, no município de Porto Seguro, com área de 22.240,67 hectares entre as coordenadas 16°45’N e 16°55’S, e 39°08’L e 39°30’O. O PNHMP poss...

Apeiba (Malvaceae, Grewioideae) is an important component of the Neotropical flora, but taxonomic knowledge of its species is limited, particularly within the Amazon region. This study aimed to provide an updated taxonomic treatment of Apeiba native to Brazil, with focus on Amazonian collections. Species of Apeiba are trees with large yellowish-whi...

Byttneria (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae) is a Pantropical genus known for its variable growth forms-ranging from shrubs to lianas-and complex floral structures. In this study, we describe a new species, Byttneria filifolia Gerace & Colli-Silva, from B. sect. Crassipetala, found in the Eastern Amazon rainforest of Brazil, specifically in Pará, and Mato...

Poster presented at the 73rd edition of Brazil's National Congress of Botany held in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

What grows where? Knowledge about where to find particular species in nature must have been key to the survival of humans throughout our evolution. Over time, and as people colonised new land masses and habitats, interactions with the local biota led to a wealth of combined traditional and scientific wisdom about the distributions of species and th...

More than 15% of all vascular plant species may remain scientifically undescribed, and many of the >340,000 described species have no or few geographic records documenting their distribution. Identifying and understanding taxonomic and geographic knowledge shortfalls is key to prioritising future collection and conservation efforts. Using extensive...

O Parque Nacional das Sempre Vivas (PNSV) é uma Unidade de Conservação de Proteção Integral, abrange os municípios de Bocaiúva, Buenópolis, Diamantina e Olhos d´Água, no estado de Minas Gerais, entre as coordenadas 43°46’37”S e 17° 48’22”W. A sede do Parque está localizada no município de Diamantina e dista cerca de 53 quilômetros da entrada princi...

Resumo: Esforços contínuos têm documentado o uso de ca. 40 "espécies de cacaus nativas" dos gêneros Theobroma L. e Herrania Goudot, Malvaceae, dezesseis delas ocorrentes no Brasil. Nesse contexto, este estudo teve como objetivo realizar uma revisão bibliográfica com caráter de síntese sobre os usos conhecidos, nomes populares e histórico das espéci...

Esforços contínuos têm documentado o uso de ca. 40 “espécies de cacaus nativas” gêneros Theobroma L. e Herrania Goudot, Malvaceae, dezesseis delas ocorrentes no Brasil. Nesse contexto, este estudo teve como objetivo realizar uma revisão bibliográfica com caráter de síntese sobre os usos conhecidos, nomes populares e histórico das espécies que ocorr...

Background Species from the "cacao group" are traditionally allocated into two genera, Theobroma and Herrania (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae), both groups of Neotropical species economically relevant, such as the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), which forms the source of chocolate. This study aimed at compiling and describing a dataset of preserved specim...

For many regions, such as in South America, it is unclear how well the existent protected areas network (PAs) covers different taxonomic groups and if there is a coverage bias of PAs towards certain biomes or species. Publicly available occurrence data along with ecological niche models might help to overcome this gap and to quantify the coverage o...

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...

In this work, we describe a new species of Ayenia (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae). Ayenia albiflora sp. nov. is known from the Cerrado areas of southern Goiás, Central‐West Brazil. It can be distinguished from its relatives by its outlying white bisexual flowers and leaves with irregular dentate margin with obovate to subelliptic shape. A distribution...

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...

A Coleção Flora do Brasil 2020 reúne os resultados obtidos ao longo de mais de dez anos de trabalho de uma rede colaborativa composta por taxonomistas brasileiros e estrangeiros, coordenada pelo Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro (JBRJ) e por um comitê gestor-científico constituído em 2008. Esse trabalho teve a finalidade de cumprir metas delineadas...

The Sapindales comprise one of the hallmark orders in the Neotropics, being an important component of forested and open formations, especially in Brazil. In recent decades, there have been many efforts made to unravel the Brazilian flora and its distribution; among them is the Brazilian Flora 2020 Project, the main goal of which was to produce upda...

ABSTRACT This synopsis presents diagnostic characters and comments on morphological variability, distribution, and conservation of species of Byttnerieae (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae) from the Atlantic Forest. Byttnerieae is represented by species from two allied genera in this phytogeographic domain: Ayenia L. and Byttneria Loefl. An extensive liter...

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...

Published online in Frontiers of Biogeography's "in press" section (direct link: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wj3r67h).

Checklist of vascular plants of the Pico da Neblina National Park, Brazil

This work validates two Waltheria species endemic to campo rupestre with complete descriptions, illustrations, updated geographical distributions and comments on taxonomic affinities. Waltheria biribiriensis and Waltheria terminans are restricted to the Southern Espinhaço Province in eastern South America, occurring on mountain tops where campo rup...

Species occurrence records provide the basis for many biodiversity studies. They derive from georeferenced specimens deposited in natural history collections and visual observations, such as those obtained through various mobile applications. Given the rapid increase in availability of such data, the control of quality and accuracy constitutes a pa...

Revisiting biogeographical patterns is the first step towards fully assessing the natural history and conservation of particular lineages, an important effort in species-rich groups from heterogeneous or undercollected areas, such as South American Malvaceae. Here, we compile, synthetize and discuss a manually revisited distribution database built...

Digital accessible knowledge of biodiversity data is an increasingly important source of information in studies of biogeography and conservation. These databases can also reveal temporal, spatial and taxonomical gaps in biodiversity documentation, even in areas that have been intensively studied and from where accurate species lists are available....

This is my PhD abstract, a project to be developed from 2020 onwards at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, under the supervision of Prof. Jose Rubens Pirani and the colab of Prof. James Edward Richardson team, from Rosário University, in Colombia, and Prof. Antonio Figueira from Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, Brazil.

Colli-Silva M, Medeiros H, Obermüller FA, Antar G, Amorim AM, Perdiz R, Lima HC, Gil ASB, Secco R, Lima DF, Almeida T, Delprete PG, Pederneiras L, Moraes PRL, Alves-Araújo AG, Koch I, Lohmann LG, Mello-Silva R, Viana PL, Goldenberg R, Daly D, Forzza RC. 2020. Lista de espécies de plantas vasculares da Estação Ecológica de Maracá. In: Catálogo de Pl...

Species occurrence records provide the basis for many biodiversity studies. They derive from geo-referenced specimens deposited in natural history collections and visual observations, such as those obtained through various mobile applications. Given the rapid increase in availability of such data, the control of quality and accuracy constitutes a p...

Resumo Com base em dados publicados sobre a ocorrência de espécies de plantas vasculares no estado de São Paulo, avaliamos a performance das unidades de conservação (UCs) na proteção dessas espécies, considerando especialmente aquelas endêmicas do estado e as ameaçadas de extinção. Das 648 espécies de samambaias e licófitas no estado, 71% ocorrem e...

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Plant blindness is a common phenomenon in urban green spaces. As an element of biodiversity perception, it is socially and individually determined. This work reveals evidences of plant blindness through a quali-quantitative survey of 49 interviews in an urban green area of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, chosen as spot for the installation of inform...

Poster with some preliminary results of my master thesis with biodiversity & distribution of some South American subfamilies of Malvaceae. Presented at the 70th Brazilian National Congress of Botany, Maceió.

This paper is a contribution to the Project "Flora of the Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais, Brazil" for the Malvaceae sensu lato. Based on all collected and analyzed material through the last few decades and on the analysis of the vouchers, there are eleven species of Byttnerioideae in five genera (Ayenia, Byttneria, Guazuma, Melochia, Waltheria), one s...

Este trabalho é uma contribuição ao projeto “Flora da Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais, Brasil” para Malvaceae sensu lato. Com base no material coletado e analisado ao longo das últimas décadas, foram registradas nesta Serra onze espécies de Byttnerioideae de cinco gêneros (Ayenia, Byttneria, Guazuma, Melochia, Waltheria), uma espécie de Sterculia em St...

Poster presented at the iDiv Annual Conference 2019, Leipzig, with some preliminary results of my master thesis.

Pending taxonomic problems regarding Pterygota Schott & Endl. are related to troublesome circumscription and historical-nomenclatural issues. For instance, Pterygota brasiliensis Allemão is cited as Basiloxylon brasiliensis (Allemão) K.Schum in some publications, e.g. the Catalog of Plants and Fungi of Brazil (Forzza et al. 2010) and the Checklist...

The subtribe Galipeinae (Rutaceae) is a flowering plant group endemic to the Neotropical region, with its center of diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Here, we aim to describe and analyze the distribution patterns of the group in Brazil, in search for possible areas of endemism. We then discuss our results to contribute to the debate on th...

The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...

The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...

A chapter on introduction to biogeographical concepts. It belongs to a book which is the main material of an Extension project "Botânica no Inverno" of the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo, 2018.

Synopsis of Rayleya in Brazil. Available at: http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/floradobrasil/FB25765.

Results of an Scientific Initiation project involving biogeography of Galipeeae tribe species (Rutaceae). Complete article is now in preparation. Authors: Matheus Colli-Silva & José Rubens Pirani.

Biological Environmental Commission ("Comissão Ambiental da Biologia", CAMBIO) is an universitary extension group and an educator collective formed by undergraduate students of biological sciences of a public university. Since its foundation in 2009, several students have dedicated their time to this project, contributing to their own formation as...

Poster presented at 67th National Botanical Congress of Brazil. Full article now submitted for publication.

Information regarding the occurrence of threatened species is essential when developing plans for the conservation of biodiversity. In this study, we gathered updated information regarding two out of 11 criteria of the plant species red list in São Paulo state, related to: i) unknown occurrence and ii) exclusive occurrence of the species in protect...

Poster presented at the 3rd Brazilian Symposium of Conservation Biology on 2015, Sao Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese). This was the result of a Scientific Iniciation program that I made between 2014 and 2015 at Forestry Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil. This poster was also selected for oral presenting at this same event.