New Zealand has long been a conundrum to biogeographers, possessing as it does
geophysical and biotic features characteristic of both an island and a continent. This schism …

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

Background Hieracium s. str. is a complex species-rich group of perennial herbs composed
of few sexual diploids and numerous apomictic polyploids. The existence of reticulation and …

Abstract Background Pachycladon (Brassicaceae, tribe Camelineae) is a monophyletic
genus of ten morphologically and ecogeographically differentiated, and presumably …

Abstract The Filago group (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) comprises eleven genera, mainly
distributed in Eurasia, northern Africa and northern America: Ancistrocarphus …

Categorical analysis of neo-and palaeo-endemism (CANAPE), phylogenetic diversity (PD)
and phylogenetic weighted endemism (PWE) were used to explore patterns of diversity …

Anaphalis is the largest Asian genus in the tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae) and has its
greatest species diversity in the eastern Himalayas. The nuclear internal and external …

We examined the geographic origins and taxonomic placements of New Zealand and
Australian Plantago (Plantaginaceae) by using molecular phylogenetic data. Plantago …

Reconstruction of molecular phylogenies is an important step towards understanding the
evolutionary history of island plant radiations. The New Zealand forget-me-nots (Myosotis …

Leptinella is exceptional in the Anthemideae (Compositae) in its evolution of dimorphic sex
expression. A molecular phylogeny including 40 of its 42 described taxa based on …