“…These studies encompass all species in most of Andean South America (Ståhl 1991(Ståhl , 1993(Ståhl , 1994(Ståhl , 1995b(Ståhl , 1996(Ståhl , 2010a(Ståhl , 2010b, the Venezuelan Guayana (Steyermark & Berry 2005), central French Guiana (Mori & Brown 2002), Mexico and Mesoamerica (Kelly & Almeda 2009, Kelly et al in preparation), and the United States , as well as the species in S. sect. Hopea in South America (Aranha Filho 2011, Aranha Filho et al 2012) and those of S. sect. Symplocos in part (the "Neosymplocos group", endemic to South America; Aranha Filho et al 2007Filho et al , 2009).…”