<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Membership</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:membership@calbotsoc.org">membership@calbotsoc.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM<br>Subject: THIS THURSDAY @ 7PM! - CalBotSoc Botany Speaker: Dr. Tito Abbo<br>To: <<a href="mailto:amy.litt@ucr.edu">amy.litt@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg6274636438681392250"><u></u>
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<strong><span style="font-size:24px"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Tito Abbo</span></span></strong></span></h3>
<div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><strong><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">"<em>L'enfer de</em> Michel Adanson: adventures in diverse, rare, endangered, hybrid and sometimes even paraphyletic manzanitas"</span></span></strong></span></div>
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<p style="line-height:125%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Manzanitas are well-known for their taxonomic complexity, which is due to a variety of factors including high diversity, hybridization, unique morphology, and historical differences of opinion among taxonomic experts. Their genetics are also complex and early studies found minimal phylogenetic resolution. This status-quo poses challenges for conservation. Manzanitas are often considered difficult to identify and with the additional factor of hybridization, it can be unclear whether the morphological ambiguity of certain individuals is due to errors in taxonomy or hybridization. A taxonomic treatment supported by molecular data is therefore imperative for prioritizing the allocation of conservation resources on protecting valid taxa. Recent genomic data shows substantial progress towards phylogenetic resolution but numerous challenges remain. The data provides different information depending on the scale of observation. Examining the genus as a whole provides insight into manzanita diversification, and manzanitas appear to have arisen in a rapid radiation during the middle Miocene. However, species frequently resolve as paraphyletic suggesting that hybridization is often cryptic, but hybridization can only be inferred indirectly. Hybridization is nonetheless directly observable with broad sampling at the population scale. The additional information gained by sampling large numbers of individuals across a limited geographic scope enables the discovery of novel taxonomic information and can be used to settle longstanding taxonomic controversies in manzanitas. The cons of these types of studies are that they require significant time and labor but do not provide context for the genus across its range. Thus, future manzanita research should focus on unusual/unclear groupings in the genus-wide phylogeny as targets for informative smaller scale studies with the long term aim of integrating results at multiple scales of observation.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:125%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Tito is a recent PhD graduate with interest in plant phylogenetics, hybridization, taxonomy, and herbarium curation, specializing in manzanitas. He developed his passion for manzanitas during his undergraduate studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU) learning plant ecology from V. Thomas Parker and plant taxonomy from Robert Patterson. He learned research skills studying ecological physiology with his advisor Kevin Simonin. He earned his BS in Biology from SFSU in 2019 and went on to pursue his PhD at UC Riverside where he researched the phylogeny of manzanitas with his advisor Amy Litt. During his research he began to see manzanitas as a model system for studying complex diversification in the presence of hybridization. He is interested in the complications that hybridization poses for traditional Linnaean taxonomy which in turn creates challenges for delimiting species boundaries and the identification of discrete species in the context of conservation. He hopes to continue this research and his ultimate goal is to become an herbarium curator.</span></span></span></p>
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