Adam P. Karremans

TL;DR: It is suggested that mountain uplift promotes species diversification across all elevational zones, and the majority of Andean orchid lineages only originated in the last 20–15 million yr.

TL;DR: An attempt is made to place generic names among their close relatives as a first step to re-evaluating the whole subtribe Pleurothallidinae.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates the utility of combined genomic evidence to disentangle phylogenetic relationships at very shallow levels of the tree of life, and in clades showing convergent trait evolution.

TL;DR: A new phylogenetic analysis of Stelis and closely related genera based on DNA sequences from nuclear ITS and chloroplast matK, based on a much larger sample, is presented; it includes more than 100 species assigned to StelIS and covers all proposed groupings within the genus, many of which have not previously been represented.

TL;DR: It is not expected that Specklinia species will hybridize naturally as their populations do not overlap geographically, but the combination of pheromone attraction and nectar feeding is likely to be a generalized pollination syndrome in Pleurothallidinae.