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Rapateaceae have small phytoliths in walls of occluded epidermal cells over sclerenchyma.

Taxon: RapateaceaeRapateaceaee0
Outcome: small phytoliths occur in the walls of occluded epidermal cellse0

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“In Bromeliaceae and Rapateaceae, small phytoliths occur in the walls of occluded epidermal cells overlying sclerenchyma.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 878–998

Title

Biosilicification in monocots: Comparative analysis highlights contrasting patterns of deposition

Paula J. Rudall; Jehova Lourenco; Manoj Kumar Mahto American Journal of Botany 2025. doi:10.1002/ajb2.70074

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The new species is 15–30 cm tall and has white petals.

Taxon: RapateaRapateae0
Organ / stage: leavese0
Outcome: small staturee0
Value: 15–30 cm talle0

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“This taxon is remarkable for Rapatea in its small stature (15–30 cm tall) and leaves, and it is only the second species with white petals”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 183–320

Title

Novedades en Rapatea (Rapateaceae) para Colombia

Gerardo A. Aymard C.; Henry Arellano-Peña Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales 2016. doi:10.18257/raccefyn.403

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Observation Rapatea isanae was described from upper Isana in Colombia.
Observation The new species differs from R. spruceana in size, lower-surface verrucosity, involucral bracts and petal shape and color.
Observation The species resembles R. longipes and R. modesta in sheath leaves, inflorescences and bractlets.
Observation R. modesta was reinstated.
Observation R. paludosa var. sessiliflora was elevated to R. sessiliflora.
Method / resource An updated key to 25 Rapatea species was provided.

Observationobservedoriginal resultbasis n/a

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R. paludosa var. sessiliflora was elevated to R. sessiliflora.

Taxon: R. paludosa var. sessilifloraRapatea paludosae0
Outcome: elevated to the rank of speciese0
Qualifier: R. sessiliflorae0

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“one variety is elevated to the rank of species (i.e., R. paludosa var. sessiliflora to R. sessiliflora )”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 981–1085

Title

Novedades en Rapatea (Rapateaceae) para Colombia

Gerardo A. Aymard C.; Henry Arellano-Peña Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales 2016. doi:10.18257/raccefyn.403

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Observation Rapatea isanae was described from upper Isana in Colombia.
Observation The new species is 15–30 cm tall and has white petals.
Observation The new species differs from R. spruceana in size, lower-surface verrucosity, involucral bracts and petal shape and color.
Observation The species resembles R. longipes and R. modesta in sheath leaves, inflorescences and bractlets.
Observation R. modesta was reinstated.
Method / resource An updated key to 25 Rapatea species was provided.

Method / resourceobservedoriginal resultbasis n/a

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An updated key to 25 Rapatea species was provided.

Taxon: RapateaRapateae0
Outcome: updated keye0
Value: twenty fivee0

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“An updated key to the all twenty five species of Rapatea”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1087–1143

Title

Novedades en Rapatea (Rapateaceae) para Colombia

Gerardo A. Aymard C.; Henry Arellano-Peña Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales 2016. doi:10.18257/raccefyn.403

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Observation Rapatea isanae was described from upper Isana in Colombia.
Observation The new species is 15–30 cm tall and has white petals.
Observation The new species differs from R. spruceana in size, lower-surface verrucosity, involucral bracts and petal shape and color.
Observation The species resembles R. longipes and R. modesta in sheath leaves, inflorescences and bractlets.
Observation R. modesta was reinstated.
Observation R. paludosa var. sessiliflora was elevated to R. sessiliflora.

Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Rapateaceae belong to a clade including all Poales except Bromeliaceae and Typhaceae.

Taxon: RapateaceaeRapateaceaee0
Outcome: clade that includes all Poales except Bromeliaceae and Typhaceaee0

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“Rapateaceae are part of a clade that includes all Poales except Bromeliaceae and Typhaceae”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1430–1520

Title

Molecular systematic studies in commelinid monocots

Saarela, Jeffery Michael cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2011. doi:10.14288/1.0100351

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Observation Parsimony and likelihood phylogenetic inferences were generally congruent.
Observation Commelinales and Zingiberales are sister taxa.
Observation Positions of Arecales and Dasypogonaceae remained unclear.
Observation Commelinales contains two stated family clades.
Observation Philydrella is sister to the rest of Philydraceae.
Observation Poales contains the stated cyperid clade.
Observation Poales contains the stated core clade with graminid and restiid branches.
Observation Ecdeiocoleaceae was moderately supported as sister to Poaceae in densely sampled analyses.
Observation Mayacaceae placement differed between parsimony and likelihood analyses.
Observation Basal positions of Bromeliaceae and Typhaceae in Poales were unresolved.
Observation Anomochlooideae and the BEP clade were strongly supported.
Observation Anomochlooideae, Pharoideae and Puelioideae are successive sister groups of remaining grasses.
Observation Bambusoideae and Pooideae are sister taxa.
Observation Accelerated plastid substitution rate in Poaceae is shared with most Poales lineages.
Observation Several traditional Bromus sections were monophyletic.
Observation Bromopsis section was not monophyletic.
Observation Plastid and nuclear linkage groups showed some incongruence in Bromus.
Observation Hydatellaceae were placed outside commelinids and monocots.
Observation Hydatellaceae were placed as sister to water lilies, corroborated by nuclear data and morphology.

Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Seedlings of Rapateaceae, Joinvilleaceae and Mayacaceae are described for the first time.

Taxon: Rapateaceae, Joinvilleaceae and MayacaceaeJoinvilleaceae Rapateaceae Mayacaceaee1
Outcome: described for the first timee1

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“Seedlings of Rapateaceae, Joinvilleaceae and Mayacaceae are described for the first time”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1194–1282

Title

Seedling Diversity and the Homologies of Seedling Organs in the Order Poales (Monocotyledons)

H.-J. Tillich Annals of Botany 2007. doi:10.1093/aob/mcm238

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C. riedelianus flowers were hermaphroditic and trimerous with diplostemonous androecia.

Taxon: C. riedelianusCephalostemon riedelianuse0
Outcome: hermaphrodite, trimerous and present a diplostemonous androeciume0

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“the flowers of C. riedelianus are hermaphrodite, trimerous and present a diplostemonous androecium”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1749–1847

Title

Anatomia floral de espécies de Eriocaulaceae e de Cephalostemon riedelianus Koern. (Rapateaceae)

Michele Marcelino Rosa Americanae (AECID Library) 2006

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Authors suggested C. riedelianus anthers attract pollinators with pollen rewards in the absence of floral nectaries.

Taxon: C. riedelianusCephalostemon riedelianuse0
Outcome: attraction of pollinator agentse0
Qualifier: offering pollen as a floral rewarde0

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“Since, within Rapateaceae, C. riedelianus does not present floral nectaries, we suggest that the anthers play an important role in the attraction of pollinator agents, offering pollen as a floral reward”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 2155–2357

Title

Anatomia floral de espécies de Eriocaulaceae e de Cephalostemon riedelianus Koern. (Rapateaceae)

Michele Marcelino Rosa Americanae (AECID Library) 2006

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The lowland subfamily Rapateoideae is paraphyletic and includes the montane subfamily Saxofridericioideae as a monophyletic subset.

Taxon: RapateaceaeRapateaceaet0
Outcome: Rapateoideae is paraphyletice1
Qualifier: includes the largely montane subfamily Saxofridericioideae as a monophyletic subsete1

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“FAMILY RAPATEACEAE”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 93–111

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“The lowland subfamily Rapateoideae is paraphyletic and includes the largely montane subfamily Saxofridericioideae as a monophyletic subset”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 470–608

Title

MOLECULAR EVOLUTION, ADAPTIVE RADIATION, AND GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSIFICATION IN THE AMPHIATLANTIC FAMILY RAPATEACEAE: EVIDENCE FROM ndhF SEQUENCES AND MORPHOLOGY

T. J. Givnish; T. M. Evans; M. L. Zjhra; et al. Evolution 2000. doi:10.1554/0014-3820(2000)054[1915:mearag]2.0.co;2

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Associationobservedoriginal resultsignificant (as stated)measured

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Morphological and anatomical data differ significantly from ndhF sequences in phylogenetic structure.

Taxon: RapateaceaeRapateaceaet0
Material: morphological/anatomical datae2
Outcome: phylogenetic structuree2
Direction: differ significantlye2

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“FAMILY RAPATEACEAE”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 93–111

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“Overall, the morphological/anatomical data differ significantly from ndhF sequences in phylogenetic structure, but show a high degree of concordance with the molecular tree in three of four tribes”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 610–806

Title

MOLECULAR EVOLUTION, ADAPTIVE RADIATION, AND GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSIFICATION IN THE AMPHIATLANTIC FAMILY RAPATEACEAE: EVIDENCE FROM ndhF SEQUENCES AND MORPHOLOGY

T. J. Givnish; T. M. Evans; M. L. Zjhra; et al. Evolution 2000. doi:10.1554/0014-3820(2000)054[1915:mearag]2.0.co;2

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