Else Marie Friis

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Denmark Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Denmark Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• The origin and early diversification of angiosperms

  Peter R. Crane;Else Marie Friis;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen

  943
  Citations

• Early Flowers and Angiosperm Evolution

  Else Marie Friis;Peter R. Crane;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen

  742
  Citations

• Cretaceous angiosperm flowers: Innovation and evolution in plant reproduction

  E.M. Friis;K. Raunsgaard Pedersen;P.R. Crane

  474
  Citations

• A reevaluation of seed plant phylogeny.

  Kevin C Nixon;William L. Crepet;Dennis Stevenson;Else Marie Friis

  381
  Citations

• Seed Size, Fruit Size, and Dispersal Systems in Angiosperms from the Early Cretaceous to the Late Tertiary.

  Ove Eriksson;Else Marie Friis;Per Löfgren

  323
  Citations

• Molecular Phylogenetic Dating of Asterid Flowering Plants Shows Early Cretaceous Diversification

  Kare Bremer;Else Marie Friis;Birgitta Bremer

  301
  Citations

• The Origins of Angiosperms and their Biological Consequences

  William A. DiMichele;Robyn J. Burnham;Hans-Dieter Sues;Else Marie Friis

  299
  Citations

• The spread of grass-dominated habitats in Turkey and surrounding areas during the Cenozoic: Phytolith evidence

  Caroline A.E. Strömberg;Lars Werdelin;Else Marie Friis;Gerçek Saraç

  262
  Citations

• Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous

  Else Marie Friis;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Peter R. Crane

  254
  Citations

• Early angiosperm diversification : The diversity of pollen associated with angiosperm reproductive structures in early Cretaceous floras from Portugal

  Else Marie Friis;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Peter R Crane

  251
  Citations

• Dating phylogenetically basal eudicots using rbcL sequences and multiple fossil reference points.

  Cajsa Lisa Anderson;Kåre Bremer;Else Marie Friis

  227
  Citations

• Archaefructus--angiosperm precursor or specialized early angiosperm?

  Else Marie Friis;James A. Doyle;Peter K. Endress;Qin Leng

  215
  Citations

• Diversity in obscurity: fossil flowers and the early history of angiosperms.

  Else Marie Friis;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Peter R. Crane

  213
  Citations

• Phase-contrast X-ray microtomography links Cretaceous seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales

  Else Marie Friis;Peter R. Crane;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Stefan Bengtson

  207
  Citations

• Lauraceous Flowers from the Potomac Group (Mid-Cretaceous) of Eastern North America

  Andrew N. Drinnan;Peter R. Crane;Else Marie Friis;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen

  205
  Citations

• Seed Plant Relationships and the Systematic Position of Gnetales Based on Nuclear and Chloroplast DNA: Conflicting Data, Rooting Problems, and the Monophyly of Conifers

  Catarina Rydin;Mari Källersjö;Else Marie Friis

  199
  Citations

• Araceae from the Early Cretaceous of Portugal: evidence on the emergence of monocotyledons

  Else Marie Friis;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Peter R. Crane

  194
  Citations

• On the evolutionary history of Ephedra: Cretaceous fossils and extant molecules

  Catarina Rydin;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Else Marie Friis

  188
  Citations

• Fossils and Plant Phylogeny

  Peter R. Crane;Patrick Herendeen;Else Marie Friis

  186
  Citations

• Palaeobotanical redux: revisiting the age of the angiosperms.

  Patrick Herendeen;Else Marie Friis;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Peter Robert Crane

  186
  Citations

• Early cretaceous (early to middle Albian) platanoid inflorescences associated with Sapindopsis leaves from the Potomac Group of eastern North America

  Peter R. Crane;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Else Marie Friis;Andrew N. Drinnan

  183
  Citations