Angiosperms dominate our terrestrial ecosystems, and the remarkable flowers and inflorescences have evolved into a spectacular and remarkably diversity. However, despite much research on their unique reproductive structures, there is still much that we do not know about how angiosperms rose to such dominance, how the first flowers evolved and how the inflorescences and flowers of extant taxa develop (Christenhusz, Fay & Chase, 2017; Sauquet et al., 2017). The Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society has a strong record of publishing papers relating to the structure and development of flowers and inflorescences and reviews of different aspects of floral biology across the angiosperms (e.g. Endress, 2014, 2015, 2019).
Papers on specific plant families or groups feature regularly in the journal. Recent papers have reported studies of developmental anatomy and evolution of flowers or parts of flowers in Nymphaeaceae (Zini et al., 2019), Velloziaceae (Sousa-Baena & De Menezes, 2019), Orchidaceae (Smidt et al., 2018; Davies & Stpiczyńska, 2019), Zingiberaceae (Cao et al., 2019), Poaceae (Muchut et al., 2019), Fabaceae subfamily Detarioideae (Kochanovski et al., 2018), Myrtales (Caetano et al., 2018; Vasconcelos et al., 2020), Anacardiaceae (Tölke et al., 2018), Rutaceae (El Ottra, Demarco & Pirani, 2019), Amaranthaceae subfamily Gomphrenoideae (Sánchez-Del Pino et al., 2019), Loasaceae (Botnaru & Schenk, 2019), Acanthaceae (Hirao, Monteiro & Demarco, 2019), Asteraceae subfamily Barnadesioideae (Svoma et al., 2020) and Torricelliaceae (Sokoloff et al., 2018).
