Molly Nepokroeff

TL;DR: Results strongly support a monophyletic Onagraceae, with Ludwigia as the basal lineage and a sister-taxon relationship between Megacorax and Lopezia, and Gongylocarpus is supported as sister to Epilobieae plus the rest of Onagreae, although relationships within the latter clade have limited resolution.

TL;DR: To address the composition of the urticalean rosids, the relationships of the component families and analyze evolution of morphological characters, sequence variation is analyzed for a large sampling of these families and various rosid outgroups using rbcL, trnL-F, and ndhF plastid regions.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the PHMV differentiated during the late Cretaceous, which is likely in explaining the South American–Australasian disjunction and subsequent dispersal events between the two and to Africa and the Mediterranean basin.

TL;DR: Psychotria is one of the largest genera of angiosperms as currently delimited, with approximately 1650 species estimated worldwide, according to a molecular phylogenetic study undertaken using ITS and rbcL.

TL;DR: The phylogenies reveal that the closest relatives to Schiedea are a pair of widespread, largely Arctic taxa, Honckenya peploides and Wilhelmsia physodes, and are not reflective of natural groups; this study proposes abandoning this classification in favor of a new system that recognizes major lineages of the molecular phylogeny at the tribal level.