AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Volume 91, Number 5May 2004


Structure and Development

 

A floral ontogenetic study on the sister group relationship between the genus

Samolus (Primulaceae) and the Theophrastaceae

PIETER L. CARIS AND ERIK F. SMETS                                                                        627    

                         

The development of the superior in Tetraplasandra (Araliaceae)

ANNEMARIE COSTELLO AND TIMOTHY J. MOTLEY                                              644

 

Population Biology

 

The potential for genetic assimilation of a native dandelion species, Taraxacum

Ceratophorum (Asteraceae), by the exotic congener T. officinale                                      656

 

Reproductive Biology

 

Correlation between distyly and ploidy level in Damnacanthus (Rubiaceae)

AKIYO NAIKI AND HIDETOSHI NAGAMASU                                                           664

 

Self-pollination in island and mainland populations of the introduced

Hummingbird-pollinated plant, Nicotiana glauca (Solanaceae)                                    

SHEILA K. SCHUELLER                                                                                                 672

 

Ecology

 

Analysis of fern spore banks from the soil of three vegetation types in the central

region of Mexico

MARIA DEL ROSARIO, RAMIREZ-TREJO, BLANCA PEREZ-GARCIA AND

ALMA OROZCO-SEGOVIA                                                                                          682

 

Seedling recruitment and survival of an endangered limestone endemic in its natural

habitat and experimental reintroduction sites

JOYCE MASCHINSKI, JOANNE E. BAGGS, AND CHRISTOPHER F. SACCHI     689

 

Drought tolerance associated with vertical stratification of two co-occurring epiphytic

bromeliads in a tropical dry forest

ERIC A. GRAHAM AND JOSE LUIS ANDRADE                                                        699

 

Systematics

 

Molecular and cytological examination of Calopogon (Orchidaceae, Epidendroideae):

Circumscription, phylogeny, polyploidy and possible hybrid speciation

DOUGLAS H. GOLDMAN, ROBERT K. JANSEN, CASSIO VAN DEN BERG,

 ILIA J. LEITCH, MICHAEL F. FAY AND MARK W. CHASE                                   707

 

Phylogenetic relationships among Strobilanthes s.l. (Acanthaceae): evidence from

ITS nrDNA, trnL-FcpDNA and morphology

ELIZABETH C. MOYLAN, JONATHAN R. BENNETT, MARK A. CARINE

RICHARD G. OLMSTEAD AND ROBERT W. SCOTLAND                                      724

 

Reticulate evolution in kiwifruit (Actinidia, Actinidaceae) identified by comparing

their maternal and paternal phylogenies

JOELLE CHAT, BLANCA JAUREGUI, REMY J. PETIT AND SOPHIE NADOT       736

 

Phylogenetic inferences in the dung-moss family Splachnaceae from analyses of

cpDNA sequence data and implications for the evolution of entomophily

BERNARD GOFFINET, A. JONATHAN SHAW AND CYMON J. COX                   748

 

Complex origins of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis, Moraceae): implications for

Human migrations in Oceania

NYREE J. C. ZEREGA, DIANE RAGONE AND TIMOTHY J. MOTLEY                   760

 

On the origin of the fig: phylogenetic relationships of Moraceae from ndhF sequences

SHANNON L. DATWYLER AND GEORGE D. WEIBLEN                                         767