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PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 231, Issue 1-4, Pages 91-108Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s006060200013
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Genista ephedroides; Genisteae; Spartocarpus; phylogeny; ITS; trnL
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A molecular investigation on the species of Genista belonging to sect. Spartocarpus was undertaken with the aim of inferring phylogenetic relationships within the section. The combined cladistic analysis of ITS 1 and 2 and of the chloroplast DNA trnL((UAA)) intron yielded a single most parsimonious cladogram with G. aetnensis as sister group to the rest of the section, which is in turn divided into two major clades, one of which includes G. nissana, G. aucheri, G. sessilifolia, G. spartioides and G. haenselari, and the other the remaining species of the section. This latter group has G. holopetala and G. radiata forming a clade, which is a sister group to a not entirely resolved monophylum including the G. ephedroides species complex. The latter shows a basal collapse of G. cilentina, G. dorycnifolia and G. numidica, and then a clade including G. ephedroides and G. valseechiae, as well as a collapsed monophylum with G. demarcoi, G. gasparrini and G. thyrrena. The clade including the G. ephedroides species group has the lowest within-group molecular variation and appears to be recent in origin, as compared to the rest of the section. The pattern of cladogeny in the section seems to be related to geographical isolation, and is broadly congruent with palynological and biogeographical evidence.
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