The origin of plants and their colonization of land fundamentally transformed the terrestrial
environment. Here we elucidate the basis of this formative episode in Earth history through …

Tropical mountains are disproportionately biodiverse relative to their surface area, but the
processes underlying their exceptional diversity require further study. Here, we use …

The genus Isoëtes is globally distributed. Within the Neotropics, Isoëtes occurs in various
habitats and ecosystems, making it an interesting case study to address phylogenetic and …

Ethnopharmacological relevance The most speciose subfamily Huperzioideae
(Lycopodiaceae, Lycopodiophyta) contains about 276 species, and some (ca. 20 species) …

Lycopodiaceae are one of the oldest lineages of any living vascular plants and contain
about 400 species distributed on all continents except Antarctica, with its highest diversity in …

Grammitidoideae are the largest subfamily in Polypodiaceae and contain about 911
species. Progress has been made in understanding the overall phylogeny and generic …

Abstract Background and Aims Substrate preferences are often treated as species traits and
are used to distinguish different habits, ie an epiphytic, lithophytic or terrestrial habit. Such a …

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 …

The classification and typification of all Australian ferns and lycophytes is updated to reflect
the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group I classification and the International Code of …

Lycopodiaceae are one of three surviving families of lycopsids, a lineage of vascular plants
with a fossil history dating to at least the Early Devonian or perhaps the Late Silurian (c. 415 …