Vertebrate‐mediated seed dispersal is a common attribute of many living plants, and
variation in the size and abundance of fleshy diaspores is influenced by regional climate …

Leguminosae are one of the most diverse flowering-plant groups today, but the evolutionary
history of the family remains obscure because of the scarce early fossil record, particularly …

While modern forests have their origin in the diversification and expansion of angiosperms
in the Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic, it is unclear whether the rise of closed-canopy …

Plant predation by insects is a major driver of high plant diversity in modern tropical forests.
Previous reports of leaf damage in middle–late Paleocene Neotropical rainforests of …

In the past decades, the concept of Icacinaceae has been refined greatly, as morphological
and molecular data have led to a narrower circumscription of a monophyletic Icacinaceae …

Conclusions. These new early Eocene Dioscorea species enrich our understanding of the
climbing elements of the Butte Member flora of Fossil Lake. They also document the long …

Premise Fossil infructescences and isolated fruits with characters of Malvoideae, a subfamily
of Malvaceae (mallow family), were collected from early Eocene sediments in Chubut …

Premise of research. Species richness of Leguminosae (Fabaceae) is highest in the
Neotropics today, but the fossil evidence of the family from this region remains sparse. The …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Recent phylogenetic analyses based on molecular data
suggested that the monocot family Zingiberaceae be separated into four subfamilies and …

An extinct kind of asymmetric samara occurs in the Eocene of Colorado, Utah, and
Wyoming. The distinctive winged fruits were attributed to Anacardiaceae by Roland Brown in …