bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/106393; this version posted February 6, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Article type: Original Article 2 Running head: Andean effect on the swan orchids biogeography 3 4 THE IMPROBABLE JOURNEYS OF EPIPHYTIC PLANTS ACROSS THE 5 ANDES: HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF CYCNOCHES (CATASETINAE, 6 ORCHIDACEAE) 7 8 Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar1*†, Marc Gottschling1, Guillaume Chomicki1, Fabien L. 9 Condamine2, Bente Klitgård3, Emerson Pansarin4 and Günter Gerlach5* 10 11 1 Department Biologie, Systematische Botanik und Mykologie, GeoBio-Center, Ludwig- 12 Maximilians Universität, Menzinger Straße 67, D - 80638, Munich, Germany 13 2 CNRS, UMR 5554 Institut de Sciences de l‘Evolution (Université de Montpellier), 14 Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France 15 3Identification and Naming department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, TW9 3AB, 16 Surrey, UK. 17 4 Departamento de Biologia, Facultade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, Universidade de 18 Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, 14040-901, Brazil 19 4Botanischer Garten München, Menzinger Straße 61, D - 80638, Munich, Germany 20 †Current address: Identification and Naming department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 21 TW9 3AB, Surrey, UK 22 *Corresponding author:
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