The Hawaiian violets represent a monophyletic lineage of angiosperms restricted to the
subaerial islands of the Hawaiian archipelago. Violets in similar habitat types (montane bog …

The endemic Hawaiian flora offers remarkable opportunities to study the patterns of plant
morphological and molecular evolution. The Hawaiian violets are a monophyletic lineage of …

Abstract Specialists studying the genus Viola have consistently allied the Hawaiian violets
comprising section Nosphinium—most of which are subshrubs or treelets—with putatively …

Background Putative phytogeographical links between America (especially North America)
and the Hawaiian Islands have figured prominently in disagreement and debate about the …

Molecular data provide several key insights into the origin and diversification of the
Hawaiian lobeliads, which comprise one-ninth of the flora of the most isolated archipelago …

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 …

The phylogenies of allopolyploids take the shape of networks and cannot be adequately
represented as bifurcating trees. Especially for high polyploids (ie, organisms with more than …

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 …

The monophyletic Hawaiian violet lineage includes five species that are endangered or
threatened. A new population of Viola was recently discovered on Helu Peak, West Maui …

The angiosperm flora of the Hawaiian Islands, with its high incidence of dioecy, has been
central in development of hypotheses about the evolution of dioecy. Based on a recent …