Dilma Melo da Silvahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8333-8028,^1,* Lana da Silva Sylvestrehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0486-0898,^2,** Cláudia Barbieri Ferreira Mendonçahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4219-6147,^3,*** Vania Gonçalves-Esteveshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2803-6027<sup>3,****,*****

1</sup>Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
²Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
³Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

^*DILMA MELO DA SILVA graduated in Biological Sciences from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2009. She was awarded a Master's in 2013, and a PhD in 2019 from the same institution. Her doctorate was on the palynology of ferns and Lycophytes. Dilma also has a postgraduate degree as a specialist in Science Education from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
^**LANA DA SILVA SYLVESTRE has an undergraduate degree and a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the Faculty of Humanities Pedro II in 1983, a master's degree in Botany from the Museu Nacional (UFRJ) in 1991 and a PhD in Botany from the Universidade de São Paulo in 2001. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and supervisor of master's and doctorates in the Postgraduate course in Botany at the Museu Nacional (UFRJ). She is a member of the Botanical Society of Brazil, the Asociación Latinoamericana de Botánica and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. She has supervised 12 master's dissertations and eight doctoral theses. She has experience in the field of Botany with an emphasis on taxonomy of Ferns and Lycophytes, especially in the Aspleniaceae family and in the flora of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
^***CLAUDIA BARBIERI FERREIRA MENDONÇA is a professor in the Department of Botany of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional and is a research fellow at Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) She graduated in Biological Sciences, Master's and PhD in Biological Sciences (Botany) at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional (1999/2006). Her research involves the palynology of the current flora in several Brazilian ecosystems.
^****CONTACT Vania Gonçalves-Esteves esteves.vr@gmail.com; vesteves@mn.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Botany, Horto Botanico, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, Rio de Janeiro, 20940-040 Brazil.
^*****VANIA GONÇALVES LOURENÇO ESTEVES is a titular professor in the Department of Botany of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional and is a research fellow at Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). She graduated in Biological Sciences (Botany) at the Universidade do Estado da Guanabara (1974), and receives a Master's in Botany (Palynology) at the Uiniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional (1981), and a PhD in Biological Sciences (Palynology) from the Universidade de São Paulo (1994). Her research involves the palynology of the current flora in several Brazilian ecosystems.