About the Authors

Mônica Bolson

Contributed equally to this work with: Mônica Bolson, Eric de Camargo Smidt, Viviane Silva-Pereira

Affiliation Departamento de Botânica, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Eric de Camargo Smidt

Contributed equally to this work with: Mônica Bolson, Eric de Camargo Smidt, Viviane Silva-Pereira

Affiliation Departamento de Botânica, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Marcelo Leandro Brotto

Affiliation Museu Botânico Municipal de Curitiba, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Viviane Silva-Pereira

Contributed equally to this work with: Mônica Bolson, Eric de Camargo Smidt, Viviane Silva-Pereira

visilvapereira@gmail.com

Affiliation Departamento de Botânica, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VSP ECS. Performed the experiments: MB ECS. Analyzed the data: MB ECS VSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLB ECS VSP. Wrote the paper: MB VSP. Field collections and taxonomic identification: MB MLB.