Covering: up to 2012 The Cephalotaxus genus belongs to the Cephalotaxaceae family of
conifers. Over the past decades it has proved to be a fruitful source of interesting natural …

Inaccurate taxonomic placement of fossils can lead to the accumulation of errors in
molecular clock studies and their generated evolutionary lineages. There are limited fossil …

Evaluating the contributions of geographic distance and environmental heterogeneity to the
genetic divergence can inform the demographic history and responses to environmental …

Dipterocarpaceae are a dominant tree family in pantropical rain forests. Molecular
phylogenetic studies suggest that it had an ancient Gondwanan origin. However, the family …

Abstract The Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main described by Karl Mädler during the first
half of the twentieth century is a key flora for the European Pliocene. In the present study, we …

Abstract Background and Aims Cephalotaxus is a paleo-endemic genus in East Asia that
consists of about 7–9 conifer species. Despite its great economic and ecological importance …

Abstract Background The pantropical genus Bauhinia, along with the northern temperate
Cercis and several tropical genera, bear bilobate, bifoliolate, or sometimes unifoliolate …

Background Morphological and molecular phylogenetic studies suggest that the pantropical
genus Bauhinia L. sl (Bauhiniinae, Cercideae, Leguminosae) is paraphyletic and may as …

The Oligocene marked the beginning of the present 'icehouse'epoch and witnessed the
development and evolution of the Asian monsoon system (AMS). In this paper, the early …

Cunninghamia praelanceolata sp. nov.(Cupressaceae) is described from the upper Miocene
Shengxian Formation of eastern Zhejiang, Southeast China. The fossil leaves are …