Do dwarf shrubs show higher speciation rates compared to their closely related non-woody species? The dwarf shrub habit is an adaptation to alpine-like environments. I was able to show, that non-woody species of African Alchemilla evolved the dwarf shrub habit at least twice and that this is connected to the colonization of alpine-like environments. Nevertheless, the evolution of the dwarf shrub habit did not increase the diversification rate of these lineages (Gehrke et al. 2015).