The article provides an overview of the problem of the origin of the only native vascular
plants of Antarctica, Deschampsia antarctica (Poaceae) and Colobanthus quitensis …

It remains unclear why there are only two vascular plant species in Antarctica, Deschampsia
antarctica Desv.(Poaceae) and Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl.(Caryophyllaceae) …

Premise of research. The opening of the Drake Passage in the Miocene (disconnecting
Antarctica and South America and resulting in the establishment of the Circumpolar Current …

The question of why only two species of vascular plant have colonized Antarctica has not
been fully answered. This review is based on a series of parallel analyses of distribution …

Aim Antarctica's remote and extreme terrestrial environments are inhabited by only two
species of native vascular plants. We assessed genetic connectivity amongst Antarctic and …

A striking feature of the Antarctic is the lack of diversity of vascular plants. Deschampsia
antarctica Desv. and Colobanthus quitensis Bartl. have inhabited the maritime Antarctic for c …

The genetical and molecular biological attributes of Deschampsia antarctica are considered
in relation to its remarkable success in the colonization of the maritime Antarctic. However …

The Antarctic continent has for long occupied an important place in the theories of plant
geographers. The presence of an Antarctic land mass formerly joined to other southern …

Plant fossils from Antarctica have played a major role in developing concepts of the
geological history of the Southern Hemisphere. Disjunct austral distributions of extant taxa …

Deschampsia antarctica is the only grass naturally occurring in Antarctica, and it is also
indigenous to southern South America. We aimed to evaluate patterns of within-population …