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Barbara G. Briggs
Researcher at Royal Botanic Gardens
Publications - 62
Citations - 3265
Barbara G. Briggs is an academic researcher from Royal Botanic Gardens. The author has contributed to research in topics: Restionaceae & Poales. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 61 publications receiving 3130 citations.
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An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants
Kåre Bremer,Mark W. Chase,Peter F. Stevens,Arne A. Anderberg,Anders Backlund,Birgitta Bremer,Barbara G. Briggs,Peter K. Endress,Michael F. Fay,Peter Goldblatt,Mat H. G. Gustafsson,Sara B. Hoot,Walter S. Judd,Mari Källersjö,Elizabeth A. Kellogg,Kathleen A. Kron,Donald H. Les,Cynthia M. Morton,Daniel L. Nickrent,Richard G. Olmstead,RA PRice,Christopher J. Quinn,JE Rodman +22 more
TL;DR: Recent cladistic analyses are revealing the phylogeny of flowering plants in increasing detail, and there is support for the monophyly of many major groups above the family level.
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On the Proteaceae—the evolution and classification of a southern family*
TL;DR: It is concluded that the Proteaceae has no close relatives, although it possibly diverged early from the Rosiflorean line, and its members were probably trees of mesothermic closed forests.
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Myrtales and Myrtaceae: a phylogenetic analysis
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Hydatellaceae identified as a new branch near the base of the angiosperm phylogenetic tree
Jeffery M. Saarela,Hardeep S. Rai,James A. Doyle,Peter K. Endress,Sarah Mathews,Adam D. Marchant,Barbara G. Briggs,Sean W. Graham +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that Hydatellaceae, a small family of dwarf aquatics that were formerly interpreted as monocots, are instead a highly modified and previously unrecognized ancient lineage of angiosperms, indicating that water lilies are part of a larger lineage that evolved more extreme and diverse modifications for life in an aquatic habitat than previously recognized.