{"id":172603,"date":"2015-02-26T16:41:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=172603"},"modified":"2015-03-26T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T19:46:13","slug":"back-to-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/back-to-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to S\u00e3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_172604\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172604\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Tecno_graminea-Fundo.jpg\" alt=\"Inflorescence (top) and spikelets of Agrostis lenis: grass rediscovered in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo after 89 years\" width=\"290\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Tecno_graminea-Fundo.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Tecno_graminea-Fundo-120x95.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Tecno_graminea-Fundo-250x197.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">RODRIGO RODRIGUES<\/span>Inflorescence (<em>top<\/em>) and spikelets of <em>Agrostis lenis<\/em>: grass rediscovered in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo after 89 years<span class=\"media-credits\">RODRIGO RODRIGUES<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Walking in the woods amid trees and bushes, few people look very closely at the ground. A group at the Botanical Institute of S\u00e3o Paulo, led by Tarciso Filgueiras, has made new discoveries doing exactly that.\u00a0 The work of Filgueiras, Rodrigo Rodrigues, and Regina Shirasuna is to investigate gramineous species (grasses) in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, for studies such as the surveys conducted for construction of the Mario Covas Beltway. Their most recent finding is<em><i> Agrostis lenis<\/i><\/em>, a grass once considered extinct in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo (the most recent specimen had been collected 89 years ago) and now discovered again at Serra da Bocaina National Park, near the border with the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais (<em><i>Check List<\/i><\/em>, January 2015). \u201cIt is a small, slender, annual grass, which makes it difficult to collect and identify,\u201d explains Rodrigues. It can only be identified through an analysis of the flowers \u2013 minuscule structures, grouped by the hundreds in yellowish clusters. Few have the patience for it, not to mention the need to be present during the species&#8217; flowering season, between summer and autumn. The supposed extinction of <em><i>A. lenis <\/i><\/em>applied only to the mountains of S\u00e3o Paulo: there are historical records of the grass being found in other areas of the Mantiqueira Mountains. In recent years, its presence was reported in the southern region of Brazil (where it is most common) and in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, always in mountainous regions. Starting in 2009, the group also rediscovered other species and included S\u00e3o Paulo in the distribution range of grasses that had previously not been listed for the state. In light of the group&#8217;s findings, Rodrigues emphasizes \u201cthe importance of knowing [the existing] biodiversity, for effective conservation and the potential sustainable use of these areas and the species that they contain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grass once considered extinct in S\u00e3o Paulo is now discovered again ","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[213],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-172603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-botany"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172603"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=172603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}