Postglacial recolonisation patterns are well documented for the Northern Hemisphere biota,
but comparable processes in the Southern Hemisphere have only recently been examined …

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 …

Deschampsіa antarctіca, one of the two angiosperm species growing in the extreme
conditions of Antarctica, is a unique model for studying the relationship between genetic …

Deschampsia antactica E. Desv. is one of the only two native vascular plants of Antarctica,
having a disjunct distribution with South America. Its presence in different environmental …

Only two vascular plants, Deschampsia antarctica Desv.(Poaceae) and Colobanthus
quitensis Kunth. Bartl.(Caryophyllaceae), inhabit the Antarctic. To clarify the taxonomic …

Aim Why are some species geographically restricted? Ecological explanations suggest that
endemic species may have restricted distributions because limited phenotypic variability …

Unlike the Arctic flora, with many flowering plant species offering opportunities to study
evolutionary processes, the Antarctic flora offers only two. One of them is the Antarctic grass …

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 …

Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) is one of the flowering plant species considered
native to maritime Antarctica. Although the species was intensively analyzed towards its …

Abstract Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. and Deschampsia antarctica Desv. are the
only Magnoliophyta to naturally colonize the Antarctic region. The reason for their sole …