Aspects of Brazilian Floristic Diversity: From Botany to Traditional Communities

SECTION I: ANGIOSPERMS REPRODUCTIVE ASPECTS

CHAPTER 01 - Flowering phenology in a Restinga community: seven years of study

CHAPTER 02 - Dioecy: the dimorphic sexual system and pollination in the restinga vegetation

CHAPTER 03 - Male and female sterility in flowering plants

CHAPTER 04 - Floral glands: morphological and functional diversity

SECTION II: TAXONOMIC ASPECTS

CHAPTER 05 - Phytoplankton taxonomic richness in Brazilian inland waters: a large-scale overview

CHAPTER 06 - Diversity of noxious phytoplankton in Brazilian coastal waters: current knowledge, gaps and future directions

CHAPTER 07 - From Vriesea to Vrieseeae: growing knowledge about evolution and diversification of tillandsioid bromeliads

CHAPTER 08 - The Importance of Palynology to Taxonomy

SECTION III: ECOLOGICAL AND CONSERVATION ASPECTS

CHAPTER 09 - Ecological Palynology

CHAPTER 10 - Serra dos rgos National Park (PARNASO) in the history of the first national parks and the national Museum first proposal at 1933

SECTION IV: ETHNOBOTANICAL ASPECTS

CHAPTER 11 - Scientific Exploration Commission (1859-1861): Freire Alemo and the invisible network of collaborators

CHAPTER 12 - The former Imperial Plant Nursery of Quinta da Boa Vista

CHAPTER 13 - The use of medicinal plants by two rural quilombola communities from Piranga municipality, Minas Gerais state, southeastern Brazil

CHAPTER 14 - "'Mulungu' is the wood to make the 'mamulengo'" The sharing of knowledge between teachers and "mamulengueiros" in a participatory workshop

CHAPTER 15 - Concluding reflections on Aspects of Brazilian Floristic Diversity: From Botany to Traditional Communities