Recent biogeographic and evolutionary studies have led to improved understanding of the
origins of exceptionally high plant diversity in the California Floristic Province (CA-FP) …

Chloroplast DNA sequences are a primary source of data for plant molecular systematic
studies. A few key papers have provided the molecular systematics community with …

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 …

During the 1990s, reconstruction of flowering plant phylogeny took a great step forward.
Rapidly accumulating DNA sequences, in particular from the plastid gene rbcL (eg Chase et …

• Premise: Bromeliaceae form a large, ecologically diverse family of angiosperms native to
the New World. We use a bromeliad phylogeny based on eight plastid regions to analyze …

A revised and updated classification for the families of the flowering plants is provided.
Newly adopted orders include Austrobaileyales, Canellales, Gunnerales, Crossosomatales …

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 …

The present classification of extant flowering plants (Magnoliopsida) updates and revises
those presented previously by bringing together the vast majority of new information …

Abstract Background and Aims The taxonomic arrangement within subfamily
Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) has been a matter of controversy in recent decades …

Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America (Les, 2017) and follows a similar format by providing
a comprehensive overview of the life history, ecology, and systematics of those …