Table 1.

Clade age estimates from the node-dating (ND) and FBD analyses

	NDmin	NDmax	NDmean	FBDmin	FBDmax	FBDmean
Stem Cyatheaceae	147.48	172.40	157.75	184.74	217.74	199.47
Crown Cyatheaceae	101.06	136.83	117.80	108.63	170.86	139.42
Crown Alsophila	55.41	86.86	71.02	52.32	99.08	75.15
A. abbottii	25.41	47.56	40.04	18.32	42.81	30.08
A. cuspidata	15.63	35.05	26.01	18.48	47.31	34.60
A. australis	42.01	76.82	60.28	39.61	85.98	62.84
A. humilis	11.20	32.00	20.66	9.99	32.00	20.30
A. manniana	11.19	51.15	29.47	10.42	52.12	28.94
A. smithii	36.30	65.77	50.78	33.83	73.20	52.78
Crown Cyathea	57.56	85.42	71.45	60.34	105.78	81.30
C. cnemidaria	19.99	41.69	30.51	18.96	45.59	31.69
C. armata	36.85	64.63	50.46	39.26	77.19	57.70
C. decurrens	33.26	70.88	51.71	30.65	80.23	55.42
C. divergens	32.13	54.68	44.74	29.41	59.08	48.44
C. gibbosa	26.64	45.34	35.76	29.14	57.03	37.56
Crown Gymnosphaera	54.79	91.34	73.18	53.63	110.77	81.35
Gymnosphaera ‘Asian-clade’	33.29	60.83	46.51	31.95	68.28	48.79
Gymnosphaera ‘Malagasy-clade’	4.37	31.66	16.04	2.94	28.04	14.06
Crown Sphaeropteris	81.45	126.48	106.72	89.13	160.38	124.53
S. horrida	10.97	35.11	22.58	10.59	37.27	22.76
Sphaeropteris ‘Fourniera-clade’	16.27	56.28	35.18	15.34	60.81	35.35
S. glauca	29.08	56.79	49.33	27.97	62.17	50.82
Sphaeropteris ‘Sarcopholis-clade’	17.27	42.57	29.39	15.98	44.65	29.77
Sphaeropteris ‘Schizocaena-clade’	7.90	30.03	18.38	7.08	30.13	18.07
Crown Dicksoniaceae	117.83	151.95	136.93	128.38	201.51	167.10
Crown Dicksonia	40.01	72.26	55.03	23.76	72.24	47.46