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 …

Plants of the Veratrum genus have been used throughout history for their emetic properties,
rheumatism, and for the treatment of high blood pressure. However, inadvertent …

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 …

A synopsis of Veratrum, including commentary on species and character evolution within the
genus, is presented. The circumscription and relationships of infrageneric taxa are …

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 …

Members of Veratrum are perennial herbs widely used in traditional Chinese medicine to
induce vomiting, resolve blood stasis and relieve pain. However, the intrageneric …

We present new comparative morphological and developmental data on gynoecia of three
genera of early-divergent monocots: Tofieldia (Tofieldiaceae, Alismatales), Petrosavia and …

Intercontinental floristic disjunction between East Asia and North America in the Northern
Hemisphere has received much attention during the past decades, but few studies have …