Urticeae sl, a tribe of Urticaceae well-known for their stinging trichomes, consists of more
than 10 genera and approximately 220 species. Relationships within this tribe remain poorly …

Abstract Background and Aims Throughout the Cenozoic, Africa underwent several climatic
and geological changes impacting the evolution of tropical rain forests (TRFs). African TRFs …

Aim Miombo woodlands form a characteristic vegetation type covering 2.7 million km2 in
southern and eastern Africa. Despite their wide geographical extent, their origin, floristic and …

Puddle frogs of the Phrynobatrachus steindachneri species complex are a useful group for
investigating speciation and phylogeography in Afromontane forests of the Cameroon …

Although today the forest cover is continuous in Central Africa, this may have not always
been the case, as the scarce fossil record in this region suggests that arid conditions might …

Phylogeographic studies on widespread rainforest species from West and Central Africa
often reveal genetic discontinuities. These discontinuities can originate from past barriers to …

Abstract Aim The Guineo‐Congolian region in Africa constitutes the second largest area of
tropical rainforest (TRF) in the world. It covered an estimated 15–22 million km2 during the …

Introduction Phylogenomics have been widely used to resolve ambiguous and controversial
evolutionary relationships among plant species and genera, and the identification of unique …

Documenting species and population diversity is becoming increasingly important as the
destruction and degradation of natural ecosystems are leading to a worldwide biodiversity …

We aimed to infer ancestral area and historical colonization of Lobelia columnaris in the sky
islands of Bioko and Cameroon through dated phylogeny using chloroplast genomes …