The Botanical Review articles

Recent articles from The Botanical Review

Foreword.(Report)
March 1, 2009... The International Botanical Congress, held in Vienna, Austria in July of 2005, included two symposia on the family Cyperaceae. The cosmopolitan Cyperaceae are the world's seventh largest plant family, with about 105 genera and perhaps 5,500 species. The largest genus, Carex (ca. 2,000 spp.),...

Phylogeny of cyperaceae based on DNA sequence data: current progress and future prospects.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Introduction Cyperaceae comprise 109 genera and approximately 5,500 species and have an almost cosmopolitan distribution (Govaerts et al., 2007). About 35% of the genera are monotypic, 26% have two to five species, and there are a seven (6%) genera with over 200 species, the largest being...

A preliminary molecular phylogeny of the Rhynchosporeae (Cyperaceae).(Report)
March 1, 2009... Introduction The tribe Rhynchosporeae comprise two genera, Rhynchospora (ca. 250-300 species) and Pleurostachys with ca. 32 species (Goetghebeur, 1998). Molecular analysis (Muasya et al., 1998, 2000) confirms the close relationship between these two genera and indicates that they form a...

A floral ontogenetic approach to questions of homology within the Cyperoideae (Cyperaceae).(Report)
March 1, 2009... Introduction Based on recent molecular phylogenetic analyses, Simpson et al. (2007) and Muasya et al. (this volume A) proposed maintenance of only two subfamilies within Cyperaceae, Mapanioideae and Cyperoideae. Cyperoideae comprise all genera of Cyperaceae previously classified in...

What is a genus in Cypereae: phylogeny, character homology assessment and generic circumscription in Cypereae.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Introduction Taxa included in tribe Cypereae are annual or perennial herbs that vary in stature from minute to 5 m tall. Leaves generally have well-developed blades, but are reduced to lobes in some species; there also may be a ligule. Inflorescences are capitate or anthelate. They all...