Ecological Archives E088-037-A5

Graciela García-Guzmán and Eduardo Morales. 2007. Life history strategies of plant pathogens: distribution patterns and phylogenetic analysis. Ecology 88:589–596.

Appendix E. List of 46 plant families affected by disease, including the number of diseased species (data derived from Appendix B), and the total number of species per family reported to occur in the Neotropics (Maas and Westra 1998).

Plant family

No. species affected by disease

No. species in the Neotropics

Amaranthaceae

1

230

Anacardiaceae

2

150

Annonaceae

5

900

Apocynaceae

2

700

Asclepiadaceae

1

1100

Asteraceae

23

4000

Bignoniaceae

5

650

Bombacaceae

3

104

Boraginaceae

1

750

Burseraceae

5

281

Butomaceae

1

40

Campanulaceae

1

710

Chrysobalanaceae

2

400

Clethraceae

1

30

Clusiaceae

2

577

Combretaceae

2

100

Cyperaceae

20

985

Dennstaedtiaceae

1

95

Erythroxylaceae

5

180

Euphorbiaceae

6

2500

Fabaceae

24

2000

Geraniaceae

1

399

Gesneriaceae

1

900

Juncaceae

1

55

Lamiaceae

2

1605

Lauraceae

5

800

Malpighiaceae

5

800

Malvaceae

2

800

Moraceae

1

250

Myrtaceae

1

1300

Nymphaeaceae

1

20

Piperaceae

1

1100

Poaceae

27

1480

Polygonaceae

4

681

Proteaceae

1

95

Ranunculaceae

3

90

Rhizophoraceae

1

25

Rosaceae

1

1225

Rubiaceae

9

4500

Sapotaceae

4

400

Smilacaceae

1

300

Solanaceae

2

1850

Tiliaceae

3

140

Verbenaceae

3

1000

Vitaceae

3

80

Vochysiaceae

2

195

TOTAL

198

36572



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