@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref17800,
author = {David Winship Taylor and Leo J. Hickey},
title = {Phylogenetic evidence for the herbaceous origin or angiosperms.},
year = {1992},
keywords = {},
doi = {},
url = {},
pmid = {},
journal = {Plant Systematics and Evolution},
volume = {180},
number = {},
pages = {137--156},
abstract = {The ancestral angiosperm is commonly interpreted as an arborescent to shrubby magnolialean with large, multiparted, complex flowers. We examined this hypothesis using a phylogenetic analysis of new and reevaluated characters polarizabled with outgroup comparison. Our cladistic analysis of basal angiosperms placed the nonmagnolialean Chloranthaceae and Piperaceae at the bottom of the tree. We further inferred the probable ancestral states of characters not polarizable with outgroup comparison by examining their distribution among taxa at the base of our cladogram. The sum of ancestral character states suggests that the protoangiosperm was a diminutive, rhizomatous to scrambling perennial herb, with small, simple flowers.}
}
Taxa for tree 2297 of Study 109
Citation title:
"Phylogenetic evidence for the herbaceous origin or angiosperms.".
This study was previously identified under the legacy study ID S11x5x95c18c15c41
(Status: Published).
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