The orchid family is renowned for its enormous diversity of pollination mechanisms and
unusually high occurrence of non-rewarding flowers compared to other plant families. The …

The Orchidaceae are one of the most species-rich plant families and their floral diversity and
pollination biology have long intrigued evolutionary biologists. About one-third of the …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

Angiosperms and their flowers have greatly diversified into an overwhelming array of forms
in the past 135 million years. Diversification was shaped by changes in climate and the …

Internal transcribed spacer (ITS nuclear rDNA) data have been obtained from 190 terrestrial
orchid species, encompassing all genera and the great majority of the widely recognized …

Orchids are horticultural plants with significant ornamental and economic value. Increasing
market circulation and rising trade in orchids is forcing breeders to develop varieties with …

The construction of classifications, as well as the understanding of biological diversity,
depends upon a careful comparison of attributes of the organisms studied (Stuessy, 1990). It …

▪ Abstract The predominantly wind-pollinated order Poales includes about one third of all
monocot (Angiosperm) species, with c. 20,000 species dominating modern savanna and …

This chapter brings together aspects of floral development and evolution in angiosperms
derived from the diversity of structures of extant plants. It provides a framework especially …

Although a great deal of research on ornamental geophytes has been conducted since the
beginning of the 1990s, current information has not been comprehensively presented to …