Many African genera of the Amaranthaceae exhibit unique inflorescences that include sterile flowers modified to hooks or spines. Considering that the abundance of large terrestrial herbivores increased on the African...
Tag - Character evolution
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Zygomorphy evolved from disymmetry in Fumarioideae
Floral bilateral symmetry (zygomorphy) has evolved at least 70 times during the history of angiosperms, whilst radial symmetry (actinomorphy) is the ancestral and most common state for angiosperms as a whole. Sauquet et...
Evolution of Old World Salvia in Africa
A phylogenetic reconstruction suggests that parallel character evolution is the rule rather than the exception in Old World Salvia in Africa.
Phylogeny and evolution of European orchids
A wealth of information on evolution and pollination of Mediterranean orchids (mostly tribe Orchideae) has been generated in the last two decades. Inda et al. integrate this with a well-supported phylogenetic tree to...
