During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

Plants are the primary producers of biomass on earth. As an almost stereotypic feature,
higher plants generate continuously growing bodies mediated by the activity of different …

Ferns are the second-most diverse lineage of vascular plants on Earth, yet the best-sampled
time-calibrated phylogeny of the group to date includes fewer than 5% of global diversity …

The phylogenetic structure of ferns (= monilophytes) is explored here, with a special focus
on the early divergences among leptosporangiate lineages. Despite considerable progress …

Most of the 470-million-year history of plants on land belongs to bryophytes, pteridophytes
and gymnosperms, which eventually yielded to the ecological dominance by angiosperms …

Drawing inferences about the past from the ecology of living organisms is one of several
approaches to reconstructing palaeo-environments. Pteridophytes are a major component of …

• Premise of the study: Understanding fern (monilophyte) phylogeny and its evolutionary
timescale is critical for broad investigations of the evolution of land plants, and for providing …

Phylogenetic definitions are provided for the names of 53 clades of vascular plants.
Emphasis has been placed on well‐supported clades that are widely known to non …

Over the past 70 years, many fern classifications, nearly all based on morphology, most
explicitly or implicitly phylogenetic, have been proposed. The most complete and commonly …

Leaves are lateral determinate structures formed in a predictable sequence (phyllotaxy) on
the flanks of an indeterminate shoot apical meristem. The origin and evolution of leaves in …