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The article reports on the Nylandtia, Polygalaceae, a small South African genus of two or more species distributed mainly in the Cape region. A close relationship between Nylandtia and Muraltia, a genus of 117 species that is nearly endemic to South Africa was established based on anatomical, morphological and molecular data gathered.

The article discusses a research on the genus Anemone (Ranunculaceae). It provides an introduction on the genus including its species, location and classifications. It offers a formal reclassification of Anemone s. 1. using materials and methods such as combined sequence data using Bayesian inference. It also presents new combinations and taxa of Anemone subgenus Anemone including subsections, series Carolinianae of subsection Anemone and combination Anemone balliana.

The article outlines the phylogeny, biogeography and divergence of Iridaceae based on its plastid DNA sequences. The phylogenetic analyses of sequences of five plastid DNA regions confirms that most aspects of this classification and the evolutionary patterns they imply. Study shows that uniting a widely circumscribed Niveniodeae and Crocoideae seems undesirable since Niveniodeae have none of the synapomorphies of Crocoideae.