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2023
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Systematic reappraisal of marsh-orchids native to Scotland.
The intensively studied Eurasian orchid genus has become a model system for exploring allopolyploid evolution, yet determining the optimal circumscriptions of, and most appropriate ranks for, its constituent taxa remain highly controversial topics. Here, novel allozyme data and detailed morphometric data for 16 Scottish marsh-orchid populations are interpreted in the... -
2022
Journal article
Systematics and conservation of British and Irish orchids: a "state of the union" assessment to accompany Atlas 2020.
Prompted by concurrent completion of the latest plant atlas for Britain and Ireland, the orchid flora of these islands is reviewed in detail, focusing on 21st century progress in both systematics research and formal conservation categorisation under IUCN criteria. DNA-based phylogenies consistently circumscribe monophyletic groups that constitute obvious genera, though...