Publications by authors named "Margaret L Stimpson"
Article Synopsis
- Understanding evolutionary history and the classification of organisms is challenging and hampers biodiversity documentation and conservation efforts, although high-throughput sequencing is helping clarify these issues.
- The study reveals that the Banksia spinulosa s.l. group actually contains two clades with distinct genetic structures, contradicting current taxonomic classifications and suggesting certain species should not be recognized.
- The findings highlight that morphological diversity may not accurately reflect evolutionary relationships, and overestimating species diversity can lead to misguided conservation priorities.
The cylindrical conflorescences of the Banksia spinulosa Sm complex have several different colour types, i.e., black, red, maroon, lemon, and yellow.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTaxa in the Banksia spinulosa Sm. complex (Proteaceae) have populations with sympatric, parapatric and allopatric distributions and unclear or disputed boundaries. Our hypothesis is that under biological, phenetic and diagnosable species concepts that each of the currently named taxa within the Banksia spinulosa complex is a separate species.
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