▪ 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 …

Darwin's dual interests in evolution and plants formed the basis of evolutionary botany, a
field that developed following his publications on both topics. Here, we review his many …

Premise of the Study For the past one billion years, green plants (Viridiplantae) have
dominated global ecosystems, yet many key branches in their evolutionary history remain …

A revised and updated classification for the families of flowering plants is provided. Many
recent studies have yielded increasingly detailed evidence for the positions of formerly …

Premise of the Study We present the first plastome phylogeny encompassing all 77 monocot
families, estimate branch support, and infer monocot‐wide divergence times and rates of …

Angiosperms are the most successful plants and support human livelihood and ecosystems.
Angiosperm phylogeny is the foundation of studies of gene function and phenotypic …

Comparative methods used to study patterns of evolutionary change in a continuous trait on
a phylogeny range from Brownian motion processes to models where the trait is assumed to …

• Premise of the study: Recent analyses employing up to five genes have provided
numerous insights into angiosperm phylogeny, but many relationships have remained …

• 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 …

We provide here a subfamilial scheme for the expanded asparagalean families
Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae. Our recommendation is that the first …