Angiosperm phylogeny poster (APP) – Flowering plant systematics, 2019
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Evolutionary Studies, Plant Science, Taxonomy, Science and Medical Education
- Keywords
- Angiosperms, Flowering Plants, Phylogeny, Plant Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity, Science Education, Vascular Plants, Classification of Plants, Taxonomy
- Copyright
- © 2019 Cole et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. Angiosperm phylogeny poster (APP) – Flowering plant systematics, 2019. PeerJ Preprints 7:e2320v5 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2320v5
Abstract
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Poster – Flowering Plant Systematics is an educational tool presenting an overview of the evolutionary relationships among flowering plants according to APG IV and APweb as of 2018. The phylogenetic tree depicts the 64 orders and the majority of the 416 families, listing the main apomorphies and plesiomorphies as well as diagnostic and nondiagnostic anatomical, morphological, and phytochemical features for orders and higher levels within the tree along with the number of families, genera, and species for each order. The intuitive color-coding facilitates memorization and teaching.
Translations of the poster by internationally renown botanists are now available in 24 languages. Hyperlinks to APweb (Peter F. Stevens, Missouri Botanical Garden) are provided for the orders and higher ranks.
This is one in a series of three educational posters on the phylogeny of land plants: Poster 1: "Angiosperms", Poster 2: "Tracheophytes: Lycophytes, Ferns, Gymnosperms", Poster 3: "Bryophytes: Liverworts, Mosses, Hornworts".
Author Comment
Version 2019/1 - updated and improved. Thismiaceae added to Dioscoreales. Four more families of Ericales added to the poster. Numbers of families/genera/species again updated to comply with APweb. Overall topology of tree remains as in previous version.