Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges. We …

Maytenus species are distributed in the New World from Argentina to the USA The genus
delimitation has been controversial, especially in relation to the inclusion of Gymnosporia. …

Subtribe Spiranthinae is the most species-rich lineage of terrestrial Neotropical orchids,
encompassing > 500 species and 40 genera. We conducted maximum parsimony and maximum …

The yam genus Dioscorea comprises c. 650 species of tropical vines with starch-rich tubers,
useful as an energy source and often containing secondary metabolites. The Neotropical …

The systematic utility of sequences from two non‐coding regions of plastid DNA, psbA‐trnH
and trnS‐trnG, and one nuclear region, nrITS, was examined in an assessment of …

Catasetum species have an intriguing mechanism of pollinarium ejection after a mechanical
stimulus of the column extensions, the antennae, of staminate flowers. The subgeneric …

Bulbophyllum section Didactyle comprises seven species, but distinction between these is
often problematic. These species are pollinated by milichiid flies and air currents move the …

Environmental sex determination (ESD) − a change in sexual function during an individual
life span driven by environmental cues − is an exceedingly rare sexual system among …

Bulbophyllum section Napelli, as recently circumscribed based on molecular analyses,
comprises 12 species. These occur as epiphytes in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest and in …

The jewel orchids (Goodyerinae), named after their often colourful leaves, have a pantropical
distribution with a clear Asian centre of diversity. However, the Nearctic and Neotropical …