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The Importance of Palynology to Taxonomy

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Given the wide morphological variability of pollen grains and spores, palynology can provide important contributions to several branches of science. Palynological information, alone or in conjunction with other data, is particularly useful for the taxonomic delimitation of species, genera, families, and higher-rank taxa. The pollen character with the highest relevance as a taxonomic marker is the type of structure resulting from sporogenesis: if a spore, it characterizes the large groups of vascular (Pteridophyta s.l.) and avascular (Bryophyta s.l.) cryptogams; if a pollen grain, it characterizes gymno- and angiosperms. Pollen unit, polarity, aperture, and sexine ornamentation are other important pollen characters; these traits are genetically determined and do not respond to variations in environmental conditions. Palynology applied to taxonomy has been the major field of research of the Álvaro Xavier Moreira Laboratory of Palynology, Brazil. Palynotaxonomy has proven useful in the study of the families Asteraceae, Passifloraceae, Podostemaceae, Vitaceae, and Leguminosae, among others. It is noteworthy the growing use of palynology to support cladistic and multidisciplinary studies seeking to establish relationships and degrees of kinship between different groups of plants to trace the evolutionary history of taxa.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the national and international herbaria that provided the material used in our studies and members of the laboratory team who performed studies not contemplated in this work. We also thank the Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation (FAPERJ), the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) for the grants and financial support provided over the years.

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    Vania Gonçalves-Esteves, Elysiane Barros Marinho, Raquel Maria Batista Souza de Souza, Simone Cartaxo-Pinto & Claudia Barbieri Ferreira Mendonça

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Gonçalves-Esteves, V. et al. (2022). The Importance of Palynology to Taxonomy. In: Medeiros, M.F.T., de Sá Haiad, B. (eds) Aspects of Brazilian Floristic Diversity . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07453-0_5

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