Project(s) of GTI scholarship holder DE MORAES Pedro Luís Rodrigues

Taxonomic study of the Lauraceae species housed in the National Botanic Garden of Belgium

Grantee: DE MORAES Pedro Luís Rodrigues

Internship details

  • Years

    2004 and 2011

  • Training location

    Meise Botanic Garden

  • Belgian supervisor

    Dr. Degreef Jérôme

  • Studied organism (classification)

    Plantae – Tracheophyta – Magnoliopsida – Laurales – Lauraceae

  • Reports

2004 internship:

The main objective of this project is to systematically study the botanical collections of Brazilian Lauraceae species housed at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Meise, Herbarium BR). Herbarium BR is of great importance to the taxonomy of Brazilian Lauraceae because it keeps historical and type specimens from important collectors of the 19th century (mainly in “Herbarium Martii”), which are essential for the precise identification and classification of taxa. These collections have no duplicates in any Brazilian herbaria. Additionally, according to its curator, no more historical BR material can be loaned, since BR has lost several important historical specimens sent on loan in the past years.

Study of extant Lauraceae collections in BR would complement a data base that has been built for Brazilian species through the annotation and digitized images of all exsiccatae. Additionally, Herbarium BR most probably possess many other specimens that have no duplicates in Brazil, which are also important to be registered.

2011 internship:

The collections of Brazilian plants kept in “Herbarium Martii” at BR will again be accessed. The objective is the completion of a Catalogue of the Brazilian plants collected by Prince Maximilian of Wied in 1815-17, which Mr. Rodrigues de Moraes started compiling in 2008, when visiting several European herbaria, including BR. The main set of plants collected by Wied in Brazil is housed at BR. High-resolution digital photographs and/or scans of the species/specimens analyzed for the Catalogue will be printed and deposited at Herbarium Rio Clarense (HRCB), to serve as a physical register of the material collected in Brazil, which has no duplicates kept in Brazilian institutions.

Additional documentation

Discover more about the work of Mr. de Moraes in his Catalogue of Brazilian plants collected by Prince Maximilian of Wied” (Volume 49 of Scripta Botanica Belgica; Meise: National Botanic Garden of Belgium, 249 pp, ISBN 9789072619891) Learn more about the taxonomy of the species belonging to the genus Cryptocarya (Lauraceae) by reading through Volume 3 of the series Abc Taxa, entitled “Taxonomy of Cryptocarya species of Brazil”, which is authored by Mr. de Moraes

Scientific papers

de Moraes, P. L. R., De Smedt, S., and Esser, H.-J. (2016). Supplement to the “Catalogue of Brazilian plants collected by Prince Maximilian of Wied”. Plant Ecol. Evol. 149, 308–315. https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2016.1160 de Moraes, P. L. R., De Smedt, S., and Guglielmone, L. (2014). On some Brazilian plants distributed by Martius in 1827 and published by Colla in Herbarium Pedemontanum—V. Harv. Pap. Bot. 19, 143–155. http://dx.doi.org/10.3100/hpib.v19iss1.2014.n11 de Moraes, P. L. R., De Smedt, S., Cardoso, D. B. O. S, and Guglielmone, L. (2014). On some Brazilian plants distributed by Martius in 1827 and published by Colla in Herbarium Pedemontanum—IV. Harv. Pap. Bot. 19, 133–141. http://dx.doi.org/10.3100/hpib.v19iss1.2014.n10 de Moraes, P. L. R. (2013). The collections of Lauraceae in the Herbarium of Henri Van Heurck (AWH). Plant Ecol. Evol. 146, 360–383. http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2013.859 de Moraes, P. L. R., De Smedt, S., Esser, H.-J., Gallagher, C., and Guglielmone, L. (2013). On some Brazilian plants distributed by Martius in 1827 and published by Colla in Herbarium Pedemontanum—III. Harv. Pap. Bot. 18, 211–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.3100/025.018.0214 de Moraes, P. L. R., De Smedt, S., Esser, H.-J., Gallagher, C., and Guglielmone, L. (2013). On some Brazilian plants distributed by Martius in 1827 and published by Colla in Herbarium Pedemontanum—II. Harv. Pap. Bot. 18, 197–210. https://doi.org/10.3100/025.018.0213 de Moraes, P. L. R., De Smedt, S., Esser, H.-J., Gallagher, C., and Guglielmone, L. (2013). On some Brazilian plants distributed by Martius in 1827 and published by Colla in 1833. Harv. Pap. Bot. 18, 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3100/025.018.0105 de Moraes, P. L. R. (2005). Lectotypification of names of Brazilian species of Cryptocarya (Lauraceae). Taxon 54, 789–795. https://doi.org/10.2307/25065435