Mountain systems harbor a substantial fraction of global biodiversity and, thus, provide
excellent opportunities to study rapid diversification and to understand the historical …

Abstract Background and Aims Theaceae, with three tribes, nine genera and more than 200
species, are of great economic and ecological importance. Recent phylogenetic analyses …

The family Caprifoliaceae sl is an asterid angiosperm clade of ca. 960 species, most of
which are distributed in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Recent studies show …

Magnoliaceae, an assemblage of early diverged angiosperms, comprises two subfamilies,
speciose Magnolioideae with approximately 300 species in varying numbers of genera and …

The use of diverse data sets in phylogenetic studies aiming for understanding evolutionary
histories of species can yield conflicting inference. Phylogenetic conflicts observed in animal …

As a consequence of hybridization, polyploidization, and apomixis, the genus Cotoneaster
(Rosaceae) represents one of the most complicated and controversial lineages in …

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 …

Acer (the maple genus) is one of the diverse tree genera in the Northern Hemisphere with
about 152 species, most of which are in eastern Asia. There are roughly a dozen species in …

Polygonatum is the largest genus of tribe Polygonateae (Asparagaceae) and is widely
distributed in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, especially well diversified in …

The tea family (Theaceae) has a highly unusual amphi-Pacific disjunct distribution: most
extant species in the family are restricted to subtropical evergreen broadleaf forests in East …