Previous molecular phylogenetic research, based on chloroplast and nuclear ribosomal
DNA data, has demonstrated that the large genus Salvia (Lamiaceae) is paraphyletic as …

Cyperaceae (sedges) are the third largest monocot family and are of considerable economic
and ecological importance. Sedges represent an ideal model family to study evolutionary …

The megadiverse genus Carex (c. 2000 species, Cyperaceae) has a nearly cosmopolitan
distribution, displaying an inverted latitudinal richness gradient with higher species diversity …

Despite recent advances in molecular phylogenetic studies, deep evolutionary relationships
in Cyperaceae are still not entirely resolved. Reduction of floral morphology and complex …

Despite the promise that molecular data would provide a seemingly unlimited source of
independent characters, many plant phylogenetic studies are still based on only two …

This paper provides a linear classification of two subfamilies, 24 tribes, 10 subtribes and 95
genera of the monocot family Cyperaceae (Poales), based on a stable phylogenetic …

Trichophoreae is a nearly cosmopolitan Cyperaceae tribe that contains~ 17 species
displaying striking variation in size, inflorescence complexity, and perianth morphology …

Plants play important roles as habitat and food for a tremendous diversity of specialist
animals and fungi. The disappearance of any plant species can lead to extinction cascades …

For over a century, the origins and mechanisms underlying the diversification of the
enormous temperate genus Carex (> 2100 species; Cariceae, Cyperaceae) have remained …

In his classic work on seeds published in 1946, Martin described the broad embryo as being
wider than tall and listed it as occurring in four monocot and two dicot families and in genera …