The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Hybridization has long been recognized as a fundamental evolutionary process in plants
but, until recently, our understanding of its phylogenetic distribution and biological …

The tree of life is the fundamental biological roadmap for navigating the evolution and
properties of life on Earth, and yet remains largely unknown. Even angiosperms (flowering …

Orchids constitute one of the most spectacular radiations of flowering plants. However, their
origin, spread across the globe, and hotspots of speciation remain uncertain due to the lack …

The Angiosperms353 gene set (AGS) consists of a set of 353 universal low-copy nuclear
genes that were selected by examining more than 600 angiosperm species. These genes …

Background Over the past decade, phylogenomics has greatly advanced our knowledge of
angiosperm evolution. However, phylogenomic studies of large angiosperm families with …

Abstract Orchidaceae (with> 28,000 orchid species) are one of the two largest plant families,
with economically and ecologically important species, and occupy global and diverse niches …

The unveiling of the angiosperm (flowering plant) tree of life over the past three decades has
been one of the great success stories of modern plant biology. Flowering plants underpin …

Premise Comprising five families that vastly differ in species richness—ranging from
Gelsemiaceae with 13 species to the Rubiaceae with 13,775 species—members of the …

Reliably documenting plant diversity is necessary to protect and sustainably benefit from it.
At the heart of this documentation lie species concepts and the practical methods used to …