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 …

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

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

Insights into the diversity of the Pantepui Flora and the biogeographic complexity of the Guayana
Shield Page 1 Introduction The Guayana Region in northeastern South America covers most of …

Phylogenetic data from plastid (ndhF and rbcL) and nuclear (PHYC) genes indicate that,
within the order Malpighiales, Elatinaceae are strongly supported as sister to …

Trees, shrubs, lianas, or rarely herbs, evergreen or deciduous, usually poisonous, often with
intraxylary phloem, more rarely also with interxylary phloem. Leaves alternate or opposite …

Androecial development and structure as well as floral vasculature of six selected species of
Bombacoideae and of several smaller lineages of the Malvatheca clade (Malvaceae sl) …

According to the results of Fay et al.(1998) and Alverson et al.(1998), Muntingiaceae and
Neuradaceae are clearly malvalean but they have an uncertain position within this group …

In this article, we present an overview of changes to the taxonomy of Malvales. In traditional
classifications, this order was variously circumscribed as including four main families (ie …