Seed plant genera endemic to the Caribbean Island Biodiversity Hotspot: a review and a molecular phylogenetic perspective.(Author abstract) From: The Botanical Review | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Acevedo-Rodriguez, Pedro; Francisco-Ortega, Javier; Lewis, Carl; Maunder, Mike; Meerow, Alan W.; Pipoly, John, III; Santiago-Valentin, Eugenio | COPYRIGHT 2007 New York Botanical Garden. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Caribbean Island Biodiversity Hotspot is composed primarily of the Bahamas and Greater and Lesser Antilles. A total of 180 genera (727 spp., ca. 9% of the species endemic to the Antilles) are restricted to this hotspot. Most of these genera are unispecific (51%), a pattern that is also found on other islands of the world. The majority of the endemic genera belong to the "Core Eudicot" clade, and they were published in two time periods (1854-1878 and 1904-1928). There are molecular phylo...