Acta Biológica Colombiana (Jan 2000)
Revisión taxonómica de la familia Celastraceae para la flora de Colombia
Abstract
ABSTRACTTaxonomic processing of the Celastraceae was made based on morphological characters andpollen from exsiccates pertaining to the different herbaria from Colombia an some fromoutside: MO, NY y US, along with characters taken directly from plants in the field,concatenating with the distributions patterns. Besides the taxonomical study, a review of thisplant group nomenclature was made, in order to establish the valid names, those ones whichare synonymous, and species location. The characters established in the descriptions of thespecies were compared with the observed ones in the study material. The study of pollen tookinto account grain type, opening of the pores, presence of rims and ribs ambit, exine, sexine andnexine, reticulation and measurements including equatorial and polar axis and the ratio long-width of pores and colpes. Fourteen pollen samples were analyzed, belonging to 8 nativegenera, revealing that palinology makes valuable contributions in the boundary of taxons,providing valid characters, that they are complemented with the other morphologic characters.The taxonomic description of the family fits with the Colombian constituent taxons.Dichotomizing keys were made in order to identify genera and species, and descriptions of eachone of the species, as well as their distribution, citation studied material of each taxon and insome cases illustrations of the species, were drawn at least one for each genus. Eigth native and1 cultivated genera were found: Celastrus 4, andean and subandean woody scandent species.Crossopetalum: 2 species of islands of Tintipán and San Andrés and Providencia. Goupia: 1species from equatorial rain forest. Gymnosporia: 2 species, one of forest of the median valleyof Magdalena and the other of the andean and subandean forest. Maytenus considered aspreliminary synopsis, with 26 species coming of different habitats. Perrottetia with 10 species,4 of these new; 1 species from piedemonte, the rest live in andean and subandean mist belts.Schaefferia: 1 species from subxerofitic and warm places. Zinowiewia: 4 species from Andeanand subandean mist belts. Euonymus: 1 cultivated species in cold climate towns.
