Baobabs (Adansonia) are a cohesive group of tropical trees with a disjunct distribution in
Australia, Madagascar, and continental Africa, and diverse flowers associated with two …

Aim Diversification of obligate parasites is often closely associated with historical shifts
among host species. This phenomenon is well‐documented in animal parasites but still …

Six new crotofolane diterpenoids (1–6) and 13 known compounds (7–19) were isolated from
the MeOH–CH2Cl2 (1: 1, v/v) extracts of the leaves and stem bark of Croton kilwae. The …

Dispersals have been shown to be critical to the evolution of the long isolated but
megadiverse flora of Madagascar and the surrounding islands of the western Indian Ocean …

Establishing species limits in clades in Croton using characters from external morphology
and common molecular markers has proved cumbersome, especially in Croton section …

Using analyses that exhaustively sampled Mascarene Diospyros and included
representative taxa from Madagascar and other regions, we explored:(1) evolutionary …

Our understanding of the origin and evolution of the astonishing Neotropical biodiversity
remains somewhat limited. In particular, decoupling the respective impacts of biotic and …

Croton is a mega-diverse genus of more than 1,200 species with great morphological
diversity and highly dimorphic flowers. Staminate flowers generally possess petals and a …

Croton kinondoensis, a new species from Kenya, is described and illustrated here with
photographs. It is found in the sacred Kaya Kinondo Forest, one of the last remaining coastal …

All published names of Croton from Madagascar, the Comoros, and the Mascarenes are
treated here. We indicate which names are currently accepted (123 native species and 1 …