Claim · model-written summary
The climbing habit might have been a key feature for the diversification of Aristolochia.
- Taxon
- Aristolochia
Aristolochiae6 - Outcome
- diversificatione7
- Qualifier
- key featuree7
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e6“the climbing habit most probably evolved in the ancestor of Aristolochia”
e7“might have been a key feature for its diversification”
Title
Sarah T. Wagner; Linnea Hesse; Sandrine Isnard; et al. Annals of Botany 2014. doi:10.1093/aob/mcu044
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Asarum and Saruma are exclusively herbaceous in growth habit.
- Observation The ancestral growth form of perianth-bearing Piperales is reconstructed as shrub-like or herbaceous.
- Observation The climbing habit most probably evolved in the ancestor of Aristolochia and is a derived growth form.
- Observation Perivascular fibres in Lactoris, Thottea and Aristolochia are anatomical synapomorphies supporting their phylogenetic relationships.
- Observation The vegetative organs of the holoparasitic Hydnoraceae are rhizomes.