Selected publications

Plant collections and collectors

L. Teixeira-Costa; J.M. Heberling,; C.A. Wilson; C. Davis. 2023. Parasitic flowering plant collections embody the extended specimen concept. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13866

E. Hingst-Zaher; L. Teixeira-Costa. 2017. Raízes do paisagismo no Butantan: o Horto Osvaldo Cruz e a contribuição de F.C. Hoehne (“Roots of urban landscaping at Butantan: the Oswaldo Cruz Garden and the contribution of F.C. Hoehne”). In: Patrimônio, Cidade e Paisagem. ISBN 978-85-68242-45-2.

L.A. Teixeira; L. Teixeira-Costa; E. Hingst-Zaher. 2015. Vital Brazil: um pioneiro na prática de ciência cidadã (“Vital Brazil: a pioneer in the practice of citizen science”). Cadernos de História da Ciência. https://doi.org/10.47692/cadhistcienc.2014.v10.33904

Dried plant specimen mounted on a sheet of paper for a herbarium collection

Herbarium specimen from the collections at the University of California, Berkeley

Illustration of an orchid with yellow flowers growing on a piece of wood

Illustration of a tropical orchid by naturalist and collector F. C. Hoehne

Parasitic flowering plants

L.C.O. Pellissari; L. Teixeira-Costa; (…) C.F. Barros. 2022. Parasitic plant, from inside out: endophytic development in Lathrophytum peckoltii (Balanophoraceae) in host liana roots from tribe Paullinieae (Sapindaceae). Annals of Botanyhttps://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab148

L. Teixeira-Costa; C. Davis 2021. Life history, diversity, and distribution in parasitic flowering plants. Plant Physiologyhttps://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab279

L. Teixeira-Costa. 2021. A living bridge between two enemies: haustorium structure and evolution across parasitic flowering plants. Brazilian Journal of Botanyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s40415-021-00704-0

Y. Krasylenko.; J. Těšitel; (...) L. Teixeira-Costa. 2021. Parasites on parasites: hyper-, epi- and autoparasitism among plants. American Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1590

F. Anselmo-Moreira; L. Teixeira-Costa; G. Ceccantini; C.M. Furlan. 2019. Mistletoe effects on the host tree Tapirira guianensis: insights from primary and secondary metabolites. Chemoecologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-018-0272-6

L. Teixeira-Costa; F.M. Coelho; G. Ceccantini. 2017. Comparative phenology of mistletoes shows the effect of different host species and temporal niche partitioning. Botany. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2016-0252

Different techniques for analyzing parasite-host connections: morphology, microtomography, and histology

Botanical art

L. Teixeira-Costa; Y.V. Hirao; E. Hingst-Zaher. 2018. Ilustrações no vitral do Museu do Instituto de Botânica de São Paulo (“Illustrations on the stained-glass of the Sao Paulo Botanical Institute Museum”). Cadernos de História da Ciência. https://doi.org/10.47692/cadhistcienc.2016.v12.33862

Piece of a stained glass five different orchid species arranged in a square frame
Piece of a stained glass showing a tropical plant with white, pink and purple flowers

Botanical art in the stained glass decoration of the Sao Paulo Botanical Institute Museum

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