Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the most diverse of all major lineages of land plants and
the dominant autotrophs in most terrestrial ecosystems. Their evolutionary and ecological …

Information on the fossil record of angiosperms has expanded dramatically over the past
twenty-five years, and in particular the discovery of numerous mesofossil floras with fossil …

Aristolochia, a genus in the magnoliid order Piperales, has been famous for centuries for its
highly specialized flowers and wide medicinal applications. Here, we present a new, high …

Plants have utterly transformed the planet, but testing hypotheses of causality requires a
reliable time‐scale for plant evolution. While clock methods have been extensively …

Molecular data on relationships within angiosperms confirm the view that their increasing
morphological diversity through the Cretaceous reflected their evolutionary radiation …

Aim Rain forest‐restricted plant families show disjunct distributions between the three major
tropical regions: South America, Africa and Asia. Explaining these disjunctions has become …

In the second half of the nineteenth century, pioneering discoveries of rich assemblages of
fossil plants from the Cretaceous resulted in considerable interest in the first appearance of …

Background Tropical rain forests are the most diverse terrestrial ecosystems on the planet.
How this diversity evolved remains largely unexplained. In Africa, rain forests are situated in …

Phylogenies are a central and indispensable tool for evolutionary and ecological research.
Even though most angiosperm families are well investigated from a phylogenetic point of …

The radiation of flowering plants during the Cretaceous represents a marked evolutionary
turnover from gymnosperm-to angiosperm-dominated ecosystems within a time span of …