Abstract Background and Aims Throughout the history of fern classification, familial and
generic concepts have been highly labile. Many classifications and evolutionary schemes …

▪ Abstract The Siluro-Devonian primary radiation of land biotas is the terrestrial equivalent of
the much-debated Cambrian “explosion” of marine faunas. Both show the hallmarks of …

Phylogeny has long informed pteridophyte classification. As our ability to infer evolutionary
trees has improved, classifications aimed at recognizing natural groups have become …

Urbanization contributes to the loss of the world's biodiversity and the homogenization of its
biota. However, comparative studies of urban biodiversity leading to robust generalities of …

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 …

The veins that irrigate leaves during photosynthesis are demonstrated to be strikingly more
abundant in flowering plants than in any other vascular plant lineage. Angiosperm vein …

Phylogenetic definitions are provided for the names of 53 clades of vascular plants.
Emphasis has been placed on well‐supported clades that are widely known to non …

As the oldest extant lineages of land plants, bryophytes provide a living laboratory in which
to evaluate morphological adaptations associated with early land existence. In this paper we …

This chapter provides a description of all plant families and genera that include putative fully
mycoheterotrophic species, excluding initial and partial mycoheterotrophs. The overview …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: The cosmopolitan lycophyte family Selaginellaceae, dating back
to the Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous, is notorious for its many species with a …