Background A robust molecular phylogeny is fundamental for developing a stable
classification and providing a solid framework to understand patterns of diversification …

Lamiaceae, the sixth largest angiosperm family, contains more than 7000 species
distributed all over the world. However, although considerable progress has been made in …

Background There are conflicting views between palaeobotanists and plant systematists/
evolutionary biologists regarding the occurrence of plant speciation in the Quaternary …

Antecedentes: Lamiaceae es una de las familias con mayor riqueza de especies en México.
Sin embargo, aún se carece de un estudio detallado sobre su diversidad en el país y de una …

Thousands of plant species worldwide are dependent on birds for pollination. While the
ecology and evolution of interactions between specialist nectarivorous birds and the plants …

Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) is a genus of flowering plants with over 800 species distributed
throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. On the Hawaiian Islands, 60 named …

Because of their extraordinary flower and leaf morphology, passion flowers (Passifloraceae)
have fascinated naturalists since their discovery. Within the large, diverse (600 species) …

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 …

Abstract Pogostemon (Lamiaceae; Lamioideae) sensu lato is a large genus consisting of
about 80 species with a disjunct African/Asian distribution. The infrageneric taxonomy of the …