“…Convincingly accepting or ruling out key innovations as an explanation would require more formal reconstructions of character evolution and the assessment of many more characters, which is beyond the scope of this article. The data used related to leaf architecture (Johnson, 2003), leaf anatomy (Van Setten & Koek‐Noorman, 1986), flower and fruit morphology (Koek‐Noorman, Setten & Zuilen, 1997), chromosome numbers (Morawetz & Waha, 1985), anther development (Tsou & Johnson, 2003), pollination characteristics (Gottsberger, 1999), evolution of fragile exines (Waha, 1987), pollen characters (Doyle & Le Thomas, 1997), different trichome types, lianas and styles (Chatrou, Koek‐Noorman & Maas, 2000), bilobed arils and different shapes of the floral receptacle (Johnson & Murray, 1995), oil composition (Maia et al ., 2005a, b) and orbicules (Huysmans et al ., 2010). A more elaborate discussion on morphological evolution in Annonaceae is given in Chatrou et al .…”