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 …

Increasingly robust understanding of angiosperm phylogeny allows more secure
reconstruction of the flower in the most recent common ancestor of extant angiosperms and …

We have amassed structural data for 108 characters and 52 taxa of magnoliids and basal
monocots and eudicots, including observations by PK Endress and A. Igersheim on flowers …

Background Understanding and modelling early events of floral meristem patterning and
floral development requires consideration of positional information regarding the organs …

The causes of the rapid diversification and extraordinary richness of flowering plants
(angiosperms) relative to other plant clades is a long-standing mystery. Angiosperms are …

Although a great deal of research on ornamental geophytes has been conducted since the
beginning of the 1990s, current information has not been comprehensively presented to …

The circumscription and relationships of genera within the tribe Melanthieae (29
representative taxa) were evaluated using parsimony analyses of ITS (nuclear ribosomal) …

Floras serve as the basic reference of the plant biota of an area; they are critical tools that
serve botanists, conservationists, ecologists, foresters, gardeners, agronomists, researchers …

Melanthiaceae (Liliales) comprise 17 genera of rhizomatous or bulbous perennials and are
distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. The relationships among the five tribes in this …

Most systematists have favored placing Petrosaviaceae close to the Triuridaceae (formerly
positioned within Alismatidae) by focusing on the mycoheterotrophic habit and nearly free …