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Showing papers in "Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society in 2016"


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TL;DR: A revised and updated classification for the families of the flowering plants is provided in this paper, which includes Austrobaileyales, Canellales, Gunnerales, Crossosomatales and Celastrales.

7,299 citations


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TL;DR: It is argued here that it is the diploidsization process that is responsible for the ‘lag phase’ between polyploidization events and lineage diversification, and has therefore made a significant contribution to the evolutionary success of flowering plants.

133 citations


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TL;DR: It is concluded that palm systematic knowledge is far from complete and that tools, such as GP2, only stimulate further scientific research and discovery, so many aspects of the palm Tree of Life still remain scarcely known.

91 citations


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TL;DR: A synthesis of the current knowledge on bromeliad water relations and a qualitative model of the evolution of relevant traits in the context of the functional types is presented, which is used to introduce a manifesto for a new research programme on the integrative biology and evolution of bromliad water-use strategies.

57 citations



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TL;DR: This paper presents the first comprehensive IUCN Red List data review for the plants endemic to Cape Verde, thus providing an important step towards the recognition and conservation of its threatened endemic flora at the national and global level.

49 citations


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TL;DR: It is shown that Old World spiny solanums do not resolve in a single clade, but are part of three unrelated lineages, suggesting at least three independent introductions from the New World.

47 citations


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TL;DR: Palm phytoliths are proving to be a powerful line of evidence linking palms to past human activity in Amazonia and it is expected their use to be expanded to interpret palaeoecological changes in this region across geological time.

47 citations


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TL;DR: An exhaustive morphological revision and molecular analyses unambiguously point to the existence of three morphotypes, ascribable to the previously described Ulota crispa s.s., U. crispula and U.intermedia, indicating that they represent three closely related, but independent, species.

46 citations


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TL;DR: The data indicate the existence of a particular phytogeographical region in the Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil, comprising inselbergs harbouring a highly diverse flora of Bromeliaceae, which the authors call Sugar Loaf Land.

43 citations


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TL;DR: A DNA barcode reference library with well-identified specimens sampled worldwide and sequences from most of the type material is provided to enable easy and fast accurate sample identification and to assist in uncovering overlooked species in Parmelia s.s.

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TL;DR: The field of phylogenomics has advanced rapidly in the past decade due to the now widespread availability of next generation sequencing technologies, which themselves continue to change at a rapid pace and drive down the cost of sequencing per base pair as discussed by the authors.

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TL;DR: ENM results indicate that the distribution of E. uniflora was fragmented in cool periods and was broader and more connected during warm periods during Pleistocene, indicating region-specific responses to changes.

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TL;DR: The molecular analysis resolves Pseudoditrichum in a clade with Chrysoblastella chilensis (formerly Ditrichaceae) in the haplolepideous lineage and confirms the polyphyly of DItrichaceae is confirmed by molecular phylogenetic analysis.


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TL;DR: Only two taxa provide potential biogeographic links with the African flora, which suggests that biome shifts of plant taxa between African subtropical /tropical biomes and Anatolian (western Eurasian) temperate forests and shrublands may have been rare in the middle Miocene.

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TL;DR: This issue presents a summary of evolutionary and phylogenetic studies at different levels in the Bromeliaceae and discusses biogeography, speciation and hybridization in the light of current knowledge.

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TL;DR: Diversification of the largest South American-endemic lineage of Brassicaceae, composed of tribes Cremolobeae, Eudemeae and Schizopetaleae, was recovered as a gradual process without any evidence for rate shifts or rapid radiation, in contrast to many other Andean groups analysed so far.

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TL;DR: Most morphological characters analysed were found to be homoplastic, but when combined they are potentially useful for the diagnosis of genera and infrageneric groups.

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TL;DR: The fossil Sciadopitys cladodes provide new insights into the conifer diversity of the ‘Baltic amber forest’ and broaden the picture of its palaeoecology, indicating the presence of humid swamp to raised bog habitats.


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TL;DR: It is shown that wind and insect pollination occur in the morphologically uniform genus Ephedrae, showing that some groups are insect-pollinated and some are wind- pollinated.

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TL;DR: Morphological results reveal that Californian and Ethiopian samples fall within the variability of those from the Mediterranean Basin, and phylogenetic analyses confirm the monophyly of these populations, showing that O. acuminatum is one of the few moss species with a distribution comprising the western Nearctic, the western Palaearctic and Palaeotropical eastern Africa.

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TL;DR: Biometric investigations indicated a high level of morphological divergence between the European and Asian populations of the species, with further differentiation between the populations from the Taurus and Lebanon Mountains.

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TL;DR: The results provide a phylogenetic background for a natural section-level classification of Clematis and strongly imply that Anemone s.l. is a grade with respect to the Anemoclema + Clematis clade.

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TL;DR: A dated phylogenetic tree for the Neotropical genus Attalea (Arecaceae) is presented and it is found that the formerly recognized groups within Attales are not monophyletic and therefore there is no support for multiple genera as previously thought.

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TL;DR: The investigation of trichome characteristics in representative species of Salvia and Pleudia reveals the usefulness of such characters in providing fundamental taxonomic criteria for taxon delimitation in these genera at various levels, especially at the specific rank.

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TL;DR: It is suggested that pollen wall morphology matters for survival and maintenance of pollen integrity further to volume increase due to hydration and a rationale for future studies is proposed that should allow disentangling the contribution of different pollen morphological and physiological features to harmomegathy.

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TL;DR: The data support the hypothesis that gene flow has contributed to the origin of phenotypic forms in the giant bromeliad A. imperialis s.l. species complex and suggest widespread and asymmetric interspecific gene flow in the studied species complex.

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TL;DR: Oaks (Quercus: Fagaceae) commonly interbreed yet retain their morphological, genetic and ecological distinctiveness.