Hybridization can facilitate both evolutionary diversification and extinction and has had a
critical role in plant evolution, with c. 25% of species known to hybridize in some temperate …

Contents Summary 1408 I. Introduction 1408 II. A brief history of hypotheses 1410 III. Age of
TRF biome and lineages 1411 IV. Frequency of immigration from other biomes 1413 V …

Phylogenetic relationships in Rosaceae have long been problematic because of frequent
hybridisation, apomixis and presumed rapid radiation, and their historical diversification has …

The pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae is the most species-rich family of
Magnoliales. Despite long-standing interest in the systematics of Annonaceae, no …

The consequences of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary (KPB) mass extinction
for the evolution of plant diversity remain poorly understood, even though evolutionary …

Background Understanding how biodiversity is shaped through time is a fundamental
question in biology. Even though tropical rain forests (TRF) represent the most diverse …

The family Araceae (3790 species, 117 genera) has one of the oldest fossil records among
angiosperms. Ecologically, members of this family range from free‐floating aquatics (Pistia …

Abstract Aim Palms (Arecaceae/Palmae) are a model group for evolutionary studies in the
tropics. Family‐wide data on taxonomy, phylogenetics and distribution are now available …

Tropical rainforest hyperdiversity is often suggested to have evolved over a long time‐span
(the 'museum'model), but there is also evidence for recent rainforest radiations. The …

The Annonaceae, the largest family in the early-divergent order Magnoliales, comprises 107
genera and c. 2,400 species. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies targeting different …