Elysiane de Barros Marinho,^1,* Claudia Petean Bove,^1,** Claudia Barbieri Ferreira Mendonça,^1,*** Vania Gonçalves Lourenço Esteves<sup>1,****

1</sup>Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Departamento de Botânica, Quinta da Boa Vist

^*Elysiane de Barros Marinho is graduate in biology (2008) and Bacharel in biology marine (2009) at the Faculdades Integradas Maria Thereza, Specialization in Education (2010) at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro -FFP/UERJ, master's at Botany (2013) and PhD degree in botany at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Museu Nacional /UFRJ. She is currently involved in the project “Systematics of Neotropical Podostemaceae”, with the subproject “Palynotaxonomy of Neotropical Podostemaceae” and “Palynotaxonomy of Sapindaceae”.
^**Claudia Petean Bove is a research fellow at the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico eTecnológico in Brazil, and is Titular Professor in the Department of Botany at the Museu National. She has a batchelors degree in ecology (awarded in 1983), a masters degree in botany (awarded in 1990) and a PhD degree in biology (awarded in 1996). Her research is currently focused on the systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Podostemaceae, the biology of aquatic vascular plants and freshwater ecosystems.
^***Claudia Barbieri Ferreira Mendonça is a professor in the Department of Botany of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu National and she is a research fellow at Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). She is graduated in biological sciences, master's and PhD degree in biological sciences (Botany) at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional (1999/2006). Her research involves Palynology of the current flora in several Brazilian ecosystems.
^****Vania Gon¸alves Louren¸o Esteves is Titular professor in the Department of Botany of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu National and is a research fellow at Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). She received a graduate degree in biological sciences (Botany) at the Universidade do Estado da Guanabara (1974), master's degree in botany (Palynology) at the Uiniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu National (1981), and PhD degree in biological sciences (Palynology) from the Universidade de São Paulo (1994). Her research involves Palynology of the current flora in several Brazilian ecosystems.