Figure 1: Hypothetical distribution of medicinal plant uses across a phylogeny.
From: Evolutionary prediction of medicinal properties in the genus Euphorbia L.
(a) Plant medicinal uses as classified by the Economic Botany Data Collection Standard based on systems of the body (b) Same plant medicinal uses classified based on a biological response. When seeking lineages with potential agents modulating an inflammatory response, the classification in (a) is not informative. Instead, the classification in (b) allows us to identify clades (marked in red in (b)) that are overrepresented in species potentially modulating an inflammatory response. Icons: thenounproject.com.
