On the origins of Balkan endemics: the complex evolutionary history of the<i>Cyanus napulifer</i>group (Asteraceae)

Abstract

The C. napulifer group is an example of a rapidly and recently diversified plant group whose genetic lineages have evolved in spatio-temporal isolation on the topographically complex Balkan Peninsula. Adaptive radiation, accompanied in some cases by long-term isolation and hybridization, has contributed to the formation of this species complex and its mosaic pattern.