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PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 251, Issue 1, Pages 35-51Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-004-0164-9
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Myrtaceae; Myrtoideae; Myrteae; Myrciinae; Myrcia; ITS; psbA-trnH; DNA sequencing; molecular phylogenetics
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A phylogenetic study of selected. fleshy-fruited genera of the Myrtaceae was conducted using sequences from the ITS region of nuclear DNA and the psbA- trnH region of plastid DNA. Studies to date have suggested that the fleshy-fruited state has arisen on several occasions in the Myrtaceae. The previously accepted and predominantly Neotropical tribe Myrteae has traditionally been divided into three groups, the subtribes Myrtinae, Eugeniinae and Myrciinae. This subtribal arrangement is analysed in detail here for the first time. The monophyly of the tribe and subtribes are tested and relationships of the genera within them, in particular those of the Myrciinae and anomalous genera sometimes associated with it, are discussed. Combined analyses of these two DNA regions revealed 40 shortest trees, all of which resolve Myrteae ( excluding the Acmena group) as monophyletic. Myrciinae appears to be monophyletic whereas Myrtinae and Eugeniinae appear polyphyletic. The phylogenetic positions and relationships of the anomalous genera Myr-ceugenia, Luma and Blepharocalyx are unclear, but Myrceugenia is never included within the Myrciinae s. str. A Myrciinae s. str. clade emerges within which Myrcia, Calyptranthes and Marlierea appear polyphyletic. Clades emerge, however, that may reflect some natural groupings within the subtribe.
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