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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 updated monographs about Brazilian plant groups. In this work, we present a synthesis of the occurrence and distributions of species and genera of Sapindales in Brazil, noting species endemic to the country, as well as the prevalence of the order in Brazilian phytogeographic domains and vegetations. We have shown that Brazil has 1003 native species in 119 genera of six families of Sapindales, with 388 (43%) species endemic to the country, and the Rutaceae and Sapindaceae families being the richest in species, genera and endemics. Diverse species and life forms are found in virtually all vegetations and phytogeographic domains, but mostly in rainforests of the Amazonian and Atlantic Forest domains. Life forms vary greatly across different families, with a prevalence of lianas in Sapindaceae and of trees in Rutaceae. We discuss our results in light of the current patterns of the families and their assemblage in different vegetation and pytogeographic domains of Brazil.
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The authors thank the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) for the research grant to the senior author (Grant ID: 2014/18002-2), as well as for the many other associated grants that have enabled the synthesis of Sapindales data into accessible platforms. We also thank Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for supporting the Brazilian Flora 2020 Project, which made accessible the data used in this study. Finally, MCS thanks Brazil’s Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and FAPESP for supporting the graduate program in which he his research is carried on.
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Colli-Silva, M., Pirani, J.R. Current knowledge of the occurrence and distribution of Sapindales in Brazil: a data synthesis from the Brazilian Flora 2020 project. Braz. J. Bot 45, 223–235 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40415-021-00739-3
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