About the Authors

Ladislav Hodač

Affiliation Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium), Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Armin Patrick Scheben

Affiliation Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium), Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Diego Hojsgaard

Affiliation Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium), Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Ovidiu Paun

Affiliation Division of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Elvira Hörandl

elvira.hoerandl@biologie.uni-goettingen.de

Affiliation Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium), Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

Elvira Hörandl is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EH LH. Performed the experiments: LH AS DH OP EH. Analyzed the data: LH AS DH. Wrote the paper: LH AS DH OP EH.