Ethnopharmacological relevance Approximately 60 species of the genus Stephania
(Menispermaceae) are distributed worldwide. Among these, 39 species are located in South …

Premise of research. The Cenozoic fossil record is crucial for understanding the evolution of
the remarkably high diversity of angiosperms. However, the quality and biases of the …

Pyrite-permineralized fruits and seeds from the London Clay Formation (Ypresian; England)
in the NHMUK are stored in silicone oil to retard decay processes. X-ray micro-computed …

Premise of the Study The fossil record is critical for testing biogeographic hypotheses.
Menispermaceae (moonseeds) are a widespread family with a rich fossil record and …

In this study, we evaluate the impact of fossil assignments and different models of calibration
on divergence time estimates carried out as Bayesian analyses. Estimated ages from …

• Premise of the study: Fossil leaves of Menispermaceae were previously described from the
Paleocene of Colombia. Because of strong homoplasy of leaf characters, the fossils could …

The phylogeny of extant Menispermaceae (Ranunculales) is reconstructed based on DNA
sequences of two chloroplast genes (rbcL and atpB) from 94 species belonging to 56 …

Menispermaceae, a dioecious, largely pantropical family of vines and lianas, consists of
approximately 70 genera. In this paper, we present phylogenies (derived using maximum …

The Menispermaceae family (Ranunculales) includes more than 500 extant species.
Climbers represent the majority of this family, and these plants are now distributed in all of …

Abstract The phylogeny of Menispermaceae (Ranunculales) is reconstructed here using
both morphological and molecular data from a broad sample of species. Morphological data …