Oceanic islands are unique in their species composition, which is defined by arrival of
colonizers via long distance dispersal followed by establishment of species followed in …

Hawaiian Melicope are one of the major adaptive radiations of the Hawaiian Islands
comprising 54 endemic species. The lineage is monophyletic with an estimated crown age …

Aim Pacific biogeographical patterns in the widespread plant genus Melicope JR Forst. & G.
Forst.(Rutaceae) were examined by generating phylogenetic hypotheses based on …

Abstract The genus Melicope (Rutaceae) occurs on most Pacific archipelagos and is
perfectly suited to study Pacific biogeography. The main goal was to infer the age …

Melicope (Rutaceae) is one of the largest plant genera on the Hawaiian Islands. We present
here a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Hawaiian species of this genus and …

Abstract Melicope oppenheimeri KR Wood, Appelhans & WL Wagner (section Pelea (A.
Gray) Hook. f., Rutaceae), a rare endemic tree from West Maui, Hawaiian Islands, is …

Platydesma, an endemic genus to the Hawaiian Islands containing four species, has long
been considered of obscure origin. Recent molecular phylogenetic studies have …

Island systems provide important contexts for studying processes underlying lineage
migration, species diversification, and organismal extinction. The Hawaiian endemic mints …

Aim Little is known about how diversification occurs within long‐lived, highly dispersible and
continuously distributed groups. We examined the distribution of genetic variation within the …

Botanists have long considered the origins of the Hawaiian flora in terms of long‐distance
dispersal from particular source areas. We extensively reviewed phylogenetic studies of the …