Macadamia F. Muell is a long-lived evergreen tree of subtropical and tropical origin (Maiden
1888; Cheel and Morrison 1935; Stephenson 1990a; Nagao and Hirae 1992). The embryo …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

Shrubs and trees are assumed less likely to lose genetic variation in response to habitat
fragmentation because they have certain life‐history characteristics such as long lifespans …

ABSTRACT The pre-clearance New Zealand lowlands were largely in complex, liana-rich,
multi-layered conifer–angiosperm forest. Here it is designated oceanic temperate forest …

Plants allocate nutrients to specific leaf cell types; eudicots are thought to predominantly
allocate phosphorus (P) to epidermal/bundle sheath cells. However, three Proteaceae …

Dating the Tree of Life has now become central to relating patterns of biodiversity to key
processes in Earth history such as plate tectonics and climate change. Regions with a …

Background Understanding the mechanisms that control species genetic structure has
always been a major objective in evolutionary studies. The association between genetic …

Background and aims–The Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar project aims to
evaluate and enumerate the native and naturalized vascular plant flora of Madagascar. In …

Aim The flowering plant family Proteaceae is putatively of Gondwanan age, with modern and
fossil lineages found on all southern continents. Here we test whether the present …

Explaining disjunct distributions, or why closely related organisms are often separated by
apparently severe barriers such as oceans or deserts, is a great challenge for historical …