Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch Year: 2013 Advances in the floral structural characterization of the major subclades of Malpighiales, one of the largest orders of flowering plants Endress, Peter K ; Davis, Charles C ; Matthews, Merran L DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mct056 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-78190 Journal Article Published Version Originally published at: Endress, Peter K; Davis, Charles C; Matthews, Merran L (2013). Advances in the floral structural characterization of the major subclades of Malpighiales, one of the largest orders of flowering plants. Annals of Botany, 111(5):969-985. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mct056 Annals of Botany 111: 969–985, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mct056, available online at www.aob.oxfordjournals.org Advances in the floral structural characterization of the major subclades of Malpighiales, one of the largest orders of flowering plants Peter K. Endress1,*, Charles C. Davis2 and Merran L. Matthews1 1Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland and 2Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA * For correspondence. E-mail
[email protected] Received: 28 November 2012 Revision requested: 21 December 2012 Accepted: 24 January 2013 Published electronically: 13 March 2013 † Background and Aims Malpighiales are one of the largest angiosperm orders and have undergone radical sys- tematic restructuring based on molecular phylogenetic studies. The clade has been recalcitrant to molecular Downloaded from phylogenetic reconstruction, but has become much more resolved at the suprafamilial level.