Tropical biotas provide excellent settings in which to explore mechanisms of evolutionary
diversification, yet these processes remain poorly understood. Pioneering work on …

Throughout the history of the classification of extant ferns (monilophytes) and lycophytes,
familial and generic concepts have been in great flux. For the organisation of lycophytes and …

• Premise of the study: Understanding fern (monilophyte) phylogeny and its evolutionary
timescale is critical for broad investigations of the evolution of land plants, and for providing …

• Premise of the study: Large genera provide remarkable opportunities to investigate
patterns of morphological evolution and historical biogeography in plants. A molecular …

Evolutionary processes such as adaptation, ecological filtering, and niche conservatism
involve the interaction of organisms with their environment and are thus commonly studied …

Although the subfamily Nepetoideae (Lamiaceae) is considered to be monophyletic,
relationships between tribes, subtribes and genera within the subfamily are poorly …

Abstract Aim Grasses (Poaceae) are found in all major habitats of Madagascar and have a
particular importance in C4 grasslands, whose origins are controversial. We aimed to …

Background Ferns have generally been neglected in studies of chloroplast genomics.
Before this study, only one polypod and two basal ferns had their complete chloroplast (cp) …

We present the first dated higher-level phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of the
butterfly family Riodinidae. This family is distributed worldwide, but more than 90% of the c …

Aim Scaly tree ferns, C yatheaceae, are a well‐supported group of mostly tree‐forming ferns
found throughout the tropics, the subtropics and the south‐temperate zone. Fossil evidence …