Cornelia Klak

TL;DR: It is shown that a well-supported clade within the Aizoaceae, representing 1,563 species almost exclusively endemic to southern Africa, has diversified very recently and very rapidly, and it is proposed that species-poor clades lacking these features are key innovations that facilitated this radiation.

TL;DR: A taxonomic backbone at the genus level is provided that reflects the current state of knowledge and accepts 749 genera for the Caryophyllales, a major lineage of flowering plants with approximately 12500 species in 39 families.

TL;DR: The Aizoaceae is the largest family of leaf succulent plants, and most of its species are endemic to southern Africa as mentioned in this paper, however, it cannot be recognized as a separate family in order to accommodate the frequently used concept of the Mesembryanthemaceae or "Mesembryantshema", in which the sub-families Meshemoideae and Ruschioideae are included.

TL;DR: It is shown that the succulent species of Euphorbia have diversified over the last 36 million years into many of the semi-arid, tropical parts of the world and it is implied that these distributions arose by long-distance dispersal after the break-up of Gondwana.

TL;DR: A phylogeny for Mesembryanthemoideae (Aizoaceae) is presented based on sampling of nearly all species and subspecies of the subfamily and analysis of cptrnL-F, rbcL-atpB, rps16, nrITSl and morphology.