@article {20402, title = {Plastome evolution in the sole hemiparasitic genus laurel dodder (Cassytha) and insights into the plastid phylogenomics of Lauraceae}, year = {2017}, abstract = {

To date, little is known about the evolution of plastid genomes (plastomes) in Lauraceae. As one of the top five largest families in tropical forests, the Lauraceae contain many species that are important ecologically and economically. Lauraceous species also provide wonderfulmaterials to study the evolutionary trajectory in response to parasitism because they contain both nonparasitic and parasitic species. This study compared the plastomes of nine Lauraceous species, including the sole hemiparasitic and herbaceous genus Cassytha (laurel dodder; here represented by Cassytha filiformis).We found differential contractions of the canonical inverted repeat (IR), resulting in two IR types present in Lauraceae. These two IR types reinforce Cryptocaryeae and Neocinnamomum\–Perseeae\–Laureae as two separate clades. Our data reveal several traits unique to Cas. filiformis, including loss of IRs, loss or pseudogenization of 11 ndh and rpl23 genes, richness of repeats, and accelerated rates of nucleotide substitutions in protein-coding genes. Although Cas. filiformis is low in chlorophyll content, our analysis based on dN/dS ratios suggests that both its plastid house-keeping and photosynthetic genes are under strong selective constraints. Hence, we propose that short generation time and herbaceous lifestyle rather than reduced photosynthetic ability drive the accelerated rates of nucleotide substitutions in Cas. filiformis.

}, keywords = {genome rearrangement, hemiparasitic plant, Lauraceae, laurel, plastid genome, substitution rate}, doi = {10.1093/gbe/evx177}, author = {Wu, Chung-Shien and Wang, Ting-Jen and Wu, Chia-Wen and Wang, Ya-Nan and Chaw, Shu-Miaw} } @inbook {20336, title = {Lauraceae}, booktitle = {Flore du Cameroun}, volume = {18}, year = {1974}, pages = {3-87}, publisher = {Mus{\'e}um National d{\textquoteright}Histoire Naturelle}, organization = {Mus{\'e}um National d{\textquoteright}Histoire Naturelle}, address = {Paris}, author = {Fouilloy, R. and Aubr{\'e}ville, Andr{\'e} and Leroy, Jean-F.} } @article {20321, title = {The Lauraceous collections of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in the Flora Brasiliensis}, journal = {Harvard Papers in Botany}, volume = {20}, year = {2015}, month = {12/2015}, pages = {167-197}, chapter = {167}, abstract = {

Abstract. This study refers to specimens of Lauraceae collected in Brazil by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius between 1817 and 1820. He collected 57 currently accepted species of Lauraceae, which belong to nine genera: Aniba, Cassytha, Cinnamomum, Cryptocarya, Dicypellium, Licaria, Nectandra, Ocotea, and Persea, for which Martius is known to have made about 99 different collections. The vast majority of them are nomenclatural types and, taking into account the synonyms involved, encompassing 26 holotypes, 23 lectotypes, and 30 syntypes. Besides Martius himself, early descriptions and citations of these materials were made by Nees von Esenbeck, Meissner, and Mez, the first monographers of the family. Martius\’s collections were the basis for the Flora Brasiliensis, where the taxonomic treatment of Lauraceae was made by the Swiss botanist Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner in 1866, being of particular interest for indicating all the collections examined and available at that time. Here, we provide an annotated and updated list of 60 entries with information on the status of the names and their types, currently accepted names, collections found in different herbaria, accompanied by an Index to Scientific names and an Index to Collections. Although there are no cases of specimens of Lauraceae collected by Martius from his \“Martii Herbarium Florae Brasiliensis,\” they are also listed here since they have been attributed to him in literature. Lectotypes for two names, Cryptocarya speciosa, and Nectandra nitidula var. maior, are designated, and a new synonymy is proposed.

}, doi = {10.3100/hpib.v20iss2.2015.n7}, author = {Pedro L.R. de Moraes and Falcade, Anderson} } @book {20306, title = {The Bahama Flora}, year = {1920}, publisher = {published by the authors}, organization = {published by the authors}, address = {New York}, url = {http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20679$\#$page/7/mode/1up}, author = {Britton, Nathaniel L. and Millspaugh, Charles F.} } @book {20295, title = {Flora of the British West Indian Islands}, year = {1860}, publisher = {Lovell Reeve \& Co.}, organization = {Lovell Reeve \& Co.}, address = {London}, url = {http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/3740$\#$page/4/mode/1up}, author = {Grisebach, August} } @article {20266, title = {Flora of Costa Rica, Part II}, journal = {Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical series}, volume = {18}, year = {1937}, month = {10/1937}, pages = {401-780}, chapter = {401}, url = {http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19747$\#$page/9/mode/1up}, author = {Standley, Paul C.} } @book {20230, title = {Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica}, year = {1775}, publisher = {M{\"o}ller}, organization = {M{\"o}ller}, address = {Stockholm [Hauniae]}, url = {http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/738019$\#$page/1/mode/1up}, author = {Forssk{\r a}l, Pehr} } @book {19870, title = {Flora Hongkongensis}, year = {1861}, publisher = {Lovell Reeve}, organization = {Lovell Reeve}, address = {London}, url = {http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63955$\#$page/367/mode/1up}, author = {Bentham, George} } @article {19850, title = {Liste des plantes de Madagascar}, journal = {Bulletin Mensuel de la Soci{\'e}t{\'e} Linn{\'e}enne de Paris}, volume = {1}, year = {1885}, chapter = {330}, url = {http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41447$\#$page/39/mode/1up}, author = {Baillon, Henri} } @inbook {19807, title = {Lauraceae}, booktitle = {Flora de La Rep{\'u}blica de Cuba}, volume = {19 (2)}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Koeltz Scientific Books}, organization = {Koeltz Scientific Books}, address = {K{\"o}nigstein}, issn = {978-3-87429-450-8}, author = {Rohwer, Jens G.} } @article {18435, title = {Symbolae ad floram Brasiliae centralis cognoscendam 6. Polygonaceae, Lauraceae, Proteaceae}, journal = {Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kj{\o}benhavn}, year = {1870}, pages = {125-149}, chapter = {125}, url = {http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/110082$\#$page/426/mode/1up}, author = {Meisner, Carl Friedrich} }