This review shows a close biogeographic connection between eastern Asia and western
North America from the late Cretaceous to the late Neogene in major lineages of vascular …

Angiosperms and their flowers have greatly diversified into an overwhelming array of forms
in the past 135 million years. Diversification was shaped by changes in climate and the …

A revised and updated classification for the families of flowering plants is provided. Many
recent studies have yielded increasingly detailed evidence for the positions of formerly …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

During the 1990s, reconstruction of flowering plant phylogeny took a great step forward.
Rapidly accumulating DNA sequences, in particular from the plastid gene rbcL (eg Chase et …

A revised and updated classification for the families of the flowering plants is provided.
Newly adopted orders include Austrobaileyales, Canellales, Gunnerales, Crossosomatales …

Anderberg, AA, Rydin, C., Källersjö, M. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships in the order
Ericales sl: analyses of molecular data from five genes from the plastid and mitochondrial …

A molecular dating of the phylogenetically basal eudicots (Ranunculales, Proteales,
Sabiales, Buxales and Trochodendrales sensu Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II) has been …

The present classification of extant flowering plants (Magnoliopsida) updates and revises
those presented previously by bringing together the vast majority of new information …

Eudicots and their currently recognized major subclades are characterized as to floral
structure (including some “embryological” features) based on ca. 3000 original publications …