Angiosperm Tree of Life - Assembling the Tree of Life
Part of the National Science Foundation's Assembling the Tree of Life Program
Morphological Research
Focusing on Five Groups: Malpighiales, Ericales, Saxifragales, Carylophyllales, and Lamiales
Observations are available in the morphological database MorphBank, R. Ronquist).
Completed over 100 morphological characters assessments on 140 taxa - all images documented by SEM or photographs
Assessing the pattern of variation within these characters within these clades; currently, 93 morphological
characters for Malpighiales have been developed
The completion of characters of these five groups will be mapped onto various molecular topologies,
and will provide a test of the methodology on integrating morphological data onto the eventual 370-taxon
cladogram of angiosperms.
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