Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch Year: 2015 Ancestral traits and specializations in the flowers of the basal grade of living angiosperms Endress, Peter K ; Doyle, James A DOI: https://doi.org/10.12705/646.1 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-119333 Journal Article Published Version Originally published at: Endress, Peter K; Doyle, James A (2015). Ancestral traits and specializations in the flowers of the basal grade of living angiosperms. Taxon, 64(6):1093-1116. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12705/646.1 TAXON 64 (6) • December 2015: 1093–1116 Endress & Doyle • Flowers of basal living angiosperms REVIEW Ancestral traits and specializations in the flowers of the basal grade of living angiosperms Peter K. Endress1 & James A. Doyle2 1 Department of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland 2 Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, U.S.A. Author for correspondence: Peter K. Endress,
[email protected] ORCID: PKE, http://orcid.org/000166228196; JAD, http://orcid.org/000240838786 DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/646.1 Abstract New morphological and phylogenetic data prompt us to present an updated review of floral morphology and its evolution in the basal ANITA grade of living angiosperms, Chloranthaceae, and Ceratophyllum. Floral phyllotaxis is complex whorled in Nymphaeales and spiral in Amborella and Austrobaileyales. It is unresolved whether phyllotaxis was ancestrally whorled or spiral, but if it was whorled, the whorls were trimerous.