Anelise G. Grotto is a Ph.D. student at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil). She is currently undertaking a research internshipt UNAM. During this internship, she will analyze and describe the leaf anatomy of several Violaceae species found in the Americas, including Mexican species such as Ixchelia mexicana and Hybanthus yucatanensis. She will be focusing on studying species from the “hybanthoides” lineage, whose phylogenetic resolution or morphological delimitation is still unclear. Additionally, as a complementary part of her thesis, she will describe the underground system of Pombalia velutina, a species from the Brazilian Cerrado, and investigate the possible presence of latex in Ixchelia kochii, a newly described Mexican Violaceae species.

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