Inflorescence and fruit traits of 88 Asteraceae species

This data set includes information on inflorescence and fruit tratis on 88 different Asteraceae species. This information was collected after studying material from two herbaria: the Asteraceae collection of the Swedish Natural History Museum Herbarium (S), and the Herbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI). We collected for each species its sexual system, head diameter (dcap), receptacle area (area), number of flowers per head (nflw), density of flowers per head (densflw), size of outermost fruits (mean.size.outer), size of innermost fruits (mean.size.inner) and the fruit size difference between both (FSD) measured as the magnitude of the difference among the size of the outer and inner fruits. This data set is the main data set used in article published in bioRxiv.org: (bioRxiv 356147; doi: DOI: 10.1101/356147, which has been peer-reviewed and recommended by:<em> Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology</em> (DOI: 10.24072/pci.ecology.1000069): Torices R, Afonso A, Anderberg AA, Gómez JM, and Méndez M. (2019). Architectural traits constrain the evolution of unisexual flowers and sexual segregation within inflorescences: an interspecific approach. bioRxiv 236646, ver 3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Evol Biol. DOI: 10.1101/356147.