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(American Journal of Botany. 2001;88:COVER-cover.)
© 2001 Botanical Society of America, Inc. Cover Illustration: A flower of Tibouchina semidecandra,a well-known ornamental from southeastern Brazil. Tibouchinais a member of the large tropical family Melastomataceae and together with other Melastomeae has been regarded as representing a relatively basal element of the family. Molecular evidence suggests that Tibouchina, Melastoma, Osbeckia,and other Melastomeae represent a derived clade of Melastomataceae that only recently reached Africa and tropical Asia. See Clausing and Renner: Molecular phylogenetics of Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae: implications for character evolution, pp. 486-498 in this issue. Photo credit: Susanne Renner.
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