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 …

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 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 …

Hawaiian plant radiations often result in lineages with exceptionally high species richness
and extreme morphological and ecological differentiation. However, they typically display …

Abstract The Hawaiian mints (Lamiaceae), one of the largest endemic plant lineages in the
archipelago, provide an excellent system to study rapid diversification of a lineage with a …

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

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 Hawaiian radiation of Myrsine (primrose family, Primulaceae) is the only one
among the ten most species‐rich Hawaiian plant lineages that has never been included in a …

Compared to traditionally used plastid or ribosomal markers, nuclear gene markers provide
many advantages for molecular systematics of plants, and high-throughput sequencing …

Zanthoxylum L.(prickly ash) is the only genus in the Citrus L. family (Rutaceae) with a
pantropical distribution. We present the first detailed phylogenetic and biogeographic study …