About the Authors

Imke Schmitt

schm2109@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Biology and Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Botany Department, The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

H. Thorsten Lumbsch

Affiliation Botany Department, The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IS TL. Performed the experiments: IS. Analyzed the data: IS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL. Wrote the paper: IS TL.