During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

The morphology of plant fossils from the Rhynie chert has generated longstanding questions
about vascular plant shoot and leaf evolution, for instance, which morphologies were …

Ferns are the second-most diverse lineage of vascular plants on Earth, yet the best-sampled
time-calibrated phylogeny of the group to date includes fewer than 5% of global diversity …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Despite the introduction of likelihood-based methods for estimating phylogenetic trees from
phenotypic data, parsimony remains the most widely-used optimality criterion for building …

Were molecular data available for extinct taxa, questions regarding the origins of many
groups could be settled in short order. As this is not the case, various strategies have been …

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 …

Molecular data offer great potential to resolve the phylogeny of living taxa but can molecular
data improve our understanding of relationships of fossil taxa? Simulations suggest that this …

Over the past 70 years, many fern classifications, nearly all based on morphology, most
explicitly or implicitly phylogenetic, have been proposed. The most complete and commonly …

Combining palaeontological and neontological data offers a unique opportunity to
investigate the relative roles of biotic and abiotic controls of species diversification, and the …