Table 1.

Phylogenetic signals (K) of seed mass, seed number, and time to germination for order, family, and species levels in the Mountains of Southwest China. K = 1 indicates that the observed trait distribution matches the model of Brownian motion for trait evolution across the phylogenetic tree; K < 1 indicates that the trait shows greater convergence than expected under the Brownian model of evolution; p < .05 means that the trait is more conserved compared to a random association with the phylogeny (Blomberg et al., 2003)

Trait	Order		Family		All species		Nonwoody		Woody
	K	p	K	p	K	p	K	p	K	p
Seed mass (SM)	0.66	.839	0.38	.816	0.37	<.001	0.46	.002	0.38	.004
Seed number per fruit (SN)	0.80	.290	0.51	.457	0.48	<.001	0.53	.004	0.49	.007
Time to germination (TG)	0.71	.713	0.52	.451	0.25	<.001	0.24	.011	0.26	.003