Recent origin of Neotropical orchids in the world’s richest plant biodiversity hotspot
O. A. Perez-Escobar, G. Chomicki, F. L. Condamine, A. P. Karremans, D. Bogarin, N. Matzke, D. Silvestro, A. Antonelli
This study investigates the origin and diversification of Neotropical orchids in the Andes, finding most lineages originated in the last 15 million years and diversification correlates with Andean orogeny.
bioRxiv · Feb 6, 2017Evolutionary Biology