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Open AccessPhylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms
Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods1,2. A robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological dominance. So far, the angio...
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Open AccessRepeated upslope biome shifts in Saxifraga during late-Cenozoic climate cooling
Mountains are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, and plant lineages that inhabit them have some of the highest speciation rates ever recorded. Plant diversity within the alpine zone - the elevation abo...
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Open AccessA plastid phylogenomic framework for the palm family (Arecaceae)
Over the past decade, phylogenomics has greatly advanced our knowledge of angiosperm evolution. However, phylogenomic studies of large angiosperm families with complete species or genus-level sampling are stil...
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Systematics and Evolution of the Genus Phoenix: Towards Understanding Date Palm Origins
The date is an iconic crop of hot and arid regions of , the Middle East and up to northwestern India. It is a member of the genus that constitutes a monophyletic group within the Coryphoideae subfamily, i...
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New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora
New Guinea is the world’s largest tropical island and has fascinated naturalists for centuries1,2. Home to some of the best-preserved ecosystems on the planet3 and to intact ecological gradients—from mangroves to...
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Open AccessA taxonomic revision of the myrmecophilous species of the rattan genus Korthalsia (Arecaceae)
The rattan genus Korthalsia Blume (Arecaceae: Calamoideae: Calameae) is widespread in the Malesian region. Among the 28 accepted species are 10 species that form intimate associations with ants. The ants inhabit ...
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Open AccessPalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database of palms worldwide
Plant traits are critical to plant form and function —including growth, survival and reproduction— and therefore shape fundamental aspects of population and ecosystem dynamics as well as ecosystem services. He...
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Open AccessFour new species of Dypsis (Arecaceae: Arecoideae) from Madagascar
Four new palm species are described in the genus Dypsis: three tree palms from the Masoala peninsula in north-eastern Madagascar (D. mijoroana sp. nov., D. ovojavavy sp. nov. and D. rabepierrei sp. nov.), and one...
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Open AccessA monograph of the Hydriastele wendlandiana group (Arecaceae: Hydriastele)
A taxonomic revision is presented of the Hydriastele wendlandiana group, a well-defined species grou** within the Indo-Pacific palm genus Hydriastele that occurs in New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and nort...
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Open AccessA monograph of the Nengella group of Hydriastele (Arecaceae)
A taxonomic revision is presented of the Nengella group of the palm genus Hydriastele (Arecaceae: Arecoideae) in New Guinea, which comprises slender understorey or midstorey palms with small, protandrous inflores...
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Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical palms
Animal-mediated seed dispersal by frugivorous birds and mammals is central to the ecology and functioning of ecosystems, but whether and how frugivory-related traits have affected plant speciation remains litt...
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Comparative development of the rattan ocrea, a structural innovation that facilitates ant–plant mutualism
The ocrea is an extension of the leaf sheath that occurs in a wide range of angiosperms, including some rattan palms (Arecaceae/Palmae). In some rattan species, the ocrea is an inflated sac-like structure that...
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Three new genera of arecoid palm (Arecaceae) from eastern Malesia
Recent botanical exploration in eastern Malesia has resulted in the discovery of three spectacular palm taxa that have proved difficult to assign to genus. New evidence from molecular phylogenetic research ind...
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Open AccessTropical rain forest evolution: palms as a model group
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Open AccessDispersal and niche evolution jointly shape the geographic turnover of phylogenetic clades across continents
The turnover of phylogenetic clades across space is a fundamental biodiversity pattern that may depend on long-term evolutionary processes and that has downstream effects on other aspects of diversity includin...
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Open AccessOrigin and global diversification patterns of tropical rain forests: inferences from a complete genus-level phylogeny of palms
Understanding how biodiversity is shaped through time is a fundamental question in biology. Even though tropical rain forests (TRF) represent the most diverse terrestrial biomes on the planet, the timing, loca...
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Open AccessA comparative analysis of pollinator type and pollen ornamentation in the Araceae and the Arecaceae, two unrelated families of the monocots
The high diversity of ornamentation type in pollen grains of angiosperms has often been suggested to be linked to diversity in pollination systems. It is commonly stated that smooth pollen grains are associate...
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A monograph of Cyrtostachys (Arecaceae)
Cyrtostachys Blume (Areceae: Arecaceae) is treated in this study as a genus of tree palms with a disjunct distribution pattern across Malesia and consisting of seven species. Three specie...
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A revision of the Heterospathe elegans (Arecaceae) complex in New Guinea
Three closely affiliated species of Heterospathe Scheff. (H. elegans (Becc.) Becc., H. humilis Becc. and H. versteegiana Becc.) from New Guinea are revised. They are reduced to a single species which is divided i...
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Calospatha subsumed in Calamus (Arecaceae: Calamoideae)
Based on previously published phylogenetic research, the genus Calospatha Becc. (Calamoideae) is placed in synonymy within Calamus L. The new combination, Calamus calospathus (Ridl.) W. J. Baker & J. Dransf. is m...
