• Premise of the study: Recent analyses employing up to five genes have provided
numerous insights into angiosperm phylogeny, but many relationships have remained …

The angiosperm order Malpighiales includes∼ 16,000 species and constitutes up to 40% of
the understory tree diversity in tropical rain forests. Despite remarkable progress in …

Background Various groups of flowering plants reveal profound ('saltational') changes of
their bauplans (architectural rules) as compared with related taxa. These plants are known …

Clusia is the only genus containing dicotyledonous trees with a capacity to perform
crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM). Since the discovery of CAM in Clusia 40 years ago …

Land-use practices can dramatically shift the trajectories of rain forest recovery. In a 25-year
study, Amazon rain forest regenerated following deforestation as long as seed availability …

In disciplines such as macroevolution that are not amenable to experimentation, scientists
usually rely on current observations to test hypotheses about historical events, assuming …

Rosidae, a clade of approximately 90 000 species of angiosperms, exhibits remarkable
morphological diversity and extraordinary heterogeneity in habitats and life forms. Resolving …

Phylogenetic hypotheses for the large cosmopolitan genus Hypericum (St. John's wort) have
previously been based on morphology, and molecular studies have thus far included only a …

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 …

 Abstract Garcinia L. is a pantropically distributed genus comprised of at least 250 species of
shrubs and trees and has centers of diversity located in Africa/Madagascar, Australasia, and …