Flowers and inflorescences of eudicots

Abstract

• Angiosperms dominate our terrestrial ecosystems, and the remarkable flowers and inflorescences have evolved into a spectacular and remarkably diversity. However, despite much research on their unique reproductive structures, there is still much that we do not know about how angiosperms rose to such dominance, how the first flowers evolved and how the inflorescences and flowers of extant taxa develop (Christenhusz, Fay & Chase, 2017; Sauquet et al., 2017). The Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society has a strong record of publishing papers relating to the structure and development of flowers and inflorescences and reviews of different aspects of floral biology across the angiosperms (e.g. Endress, 2014, 2015, 2019).