Biogeographers have often been puzzled by several unusual features in the Juan
Fernández Islands (JFI) biota. These include the very high endemism density, multiple …

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

Aim Palaeoendemics are clades that are ancient but geographically restricted, often
because they have been selected against in other areas. Ecological similarities among …

The agarwood-producing genera, Aquilaria and Gyrinops, have been treated as sister
genera in Thymelaeaceae (Aquilarieae, Malvales). However, there are differing opinions …

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the
biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to …

The tribe Aquilarieae of the family Thymelaeaceae consists of two genera, Aquilaria and
Gyrinops, with a total of 30 species, distributed from northeast India, through southeast Asia …

The complete chloroplast genomes of three species of Edgeworthia namely, Edgeworthia
albiflora, Edgeworthia chrysantha, and Edgeworthia gardneri (Thymelaeaceae), are …

Data sets comprising small numbers of genetic markers are not always able to resolve
phylogenetic relationships. This has frequently been the case in molecular systematic …

Aquilaria LAM. is an endangered tropical tree that produces agarwood, a common
ingredient in medicine, perfumes and incense. The species endemic to China, Aquilaria …

Abstract Lasiosiphon Fresen.(Thymelaeaceae: Thymelaeoideae) is now understood to be a
morphologically diverse genus distributed across southern and tropical Africa, Madagascar …