History and Concepts of Big Plant Genera

By D. Frodin. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Salvia united: The greatest good for the greatest number (2017, background): “This is especially apparent when broadly recognizable, iconic genera are revealed to be non-monophyletic (Frodin, 2004; Humphreys Version of Record Drew & al.”
• Biodiversity of Food Species of the Solanaceae Family: A Preliminary Taxonomic Inventory of Subfamily Solanoideae (2015, background): “) Is the largest genus in the Solanaceae and one of the 10 largest plant genera [110].”
• A Global Assessment of Distribution, Diversity, Endemism, and Taxonomic Effort in the Rubiaceae1 (2009, background): “Psychotria is now the world’s third largest genus, after Astragalus L. (Leguminosae) with ca. 3200 species and Bulbophyllum Thouars (Orchidaceae) with ca. 2000 species (Frodin, 2004).”
• Reconstructing the phylogeny of figs (Ficus, Moraceae) to reveal the history of the fig pollination mutualism (2008, background): “Frodin (2004) ranked them as the twenty-first largest genus of seed plants.”
• Phylogeny of Miconia (Melastomataceae): Patterns of Stamen Diversification in a Megadiverse Neotropical Genus (2008, background): “Miconia Ruiz & Pavón is the largest genus of Melastomataceae, with about 1050 species (Goldenberg 2000), and is probably the largest exclusively New World genus of flowering plants, perhaps rivaled by only Pleurothallis R.Br. (Orchidaceae) before its breakup (Frodin 2004).”
• A Phylogeny of the Tropical Genus Piper Using Its and the Chloroplast Intron psbJ–petA (2008, background): “Piper, with ∼2,000 species (Quijano-Abril et al. 2006), is one of the 20 most species rich genera of flowering plants (Frodin 2004).”
• A Three-Gene Phylogeny of the Genus Solanum (Solanaceae) (2007, background): “Thought to encompass some 1,250 to 1,700 species, it is the largest genus in Solanaceae and within the top 10 most species-rich seed plant genera (Frodin 2004).”
• Current perspectives on the economic botany of the genus Aloe L. (Xanthorrhoeaceae) (2011, background): “All righ doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2011.07.002 “big” genera of more than 500 species (Frodin, 2004), fully comprehensive studies of the taxonomy and biology of Aloe are difficult and research to date has largely focused on geographical or taxonomic subsets.”