… (ie, those colonizing California from the north, during … California native plants of all historical,
geographic origins. In contrast to long-accepted ideas, we find that California diversification …

… The California flora provides an outstanding system for exploring patterns of biodiversity …
of dispersal and diversification to the assembly of a regional flora. California has over 6,500 …

… clade diversified. In particular, about 30% of the flora was assigned to the category ‘California …
that the group in question had diversified extensively within California. Clearly, if one goes …

… California is very rich in species of native vascular plants, with 5046, but not … The California
flora appears even more impressive when the number of genera and species in the California …

… Most important for our purpose are Benson's maps of the geographical occurrence of his
floras (1957:581-585, 593, 601, 606, 613) found in California which vividly portray the insular …

… investigations of the origins and consequences of other specialists in the California flora (ie, …
to our finding of decreased diversification following the origin of habitat specialization and …

… Origin and diversification of the California flora: Re-examining classic hypotheses with
molecular phylogenies. Evolution (Lancaster) 67: 1041–1054. Landis, MJ, WA Freyman & BG …

… be regarded as neo-endemic, with diversification since the mid-Miocene onset of transition
… of species richness and endemism in the California flora, and found that some areas of high …

… (ie, ‘higher’ taxa) in phenotypic diversification for continuous characters, such as body size
or seed size. We examine diversification of individual traits in terms of the variance of the …

… It occurs in an area of diversified physical features, … floras from Baja California for comparison
with those of the arid regions in California and Nevada, an assessment of the modern flora …