Five vicarious genera from Gondwana: the Velloziaceae as shown by molecules and morphology

Mello‐Silva, Renato de; Santos, Déborah Yara Alves Cursino dos; Salatino, Maria Luiza Faria; Motta, Lucimar Barbosa; Cattai, Marina Blanco; Sasaki, Denise; Lovo, Juliana; Pita, Patrícia Borges; Rocini, Cíntia; Rodrigues, Cristiane Del Nero; Zarrei, Mehdi; Chase, Mark W.

doi:10.1093/aob/mcr107

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“…Such families include Acanthochlamydaceae, Bretschneideraceae, Illiciaceae, Leeaceae, Parnassiaceae, Rhoipteleaceae, and Toricelliaceae. Recent studies supported merging Bretschneideraceae ( Bretschneidera ) and Acanthochlamydaceae ( Acanthochlamys ) with their sisters, Akaniaceae of Australia (Rodman & Karol, ; Bayer & Appel, ; APG IV, 2016) and Velloziaceae of South America and Africa (north to the Arabian Peninsula), respectively (Behnke et al, ; Mello‐Silva, ; Mello‐Silva et al, ). However, we propose maintaining the family status of Bretschneideraceae and Acanthochlamydaceae, because they are clearly morphologically and geographically distinguished from their sisters.…”

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Tree of life for the genera of Chinese vascular plants

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Yang

et al. 2016

J of Sytematics Evolution

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We reconstructed a phylogenetic tree of Chinese vascular plants (Tracheophyta) using sequences of the chloroplast genes atpB, matK, ndhF, and rbcL and mitochondrial matR. We produced a matrix comprising 6098 species and including 13 695 DNA sequences, of which 1803 were newly generated. Our taxonomic sampling spanned 3114 genera representing 323 families of Chinese vascular plants, covering more than 93% of all genera known from China. The comprehensive large phylogeny supports most relationships among and within families recognized by recent molecular phylogenetic studies for lycophytes, ferns (monilophytes), gymnosperms, and angiosperms. For angiosperms, most families in Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV are supported as monophyletic, except for a paraphyletic Dipterocarpaceae and Santalaceae. The infrafamilial relationships of several large families and monophyly of some large genera are well supported by our dense taxonomic sampling. Our results showed that two species of Eberhardtia are sister to a clade formed by all other taxa of Sapotaceae, except Sarcosperma. We have made our phylogeny of Chinese vascular plants publically available for the creation of subtrees via SoTree (http://www.darwintree.cn/flora/index.shtml), an automated phylogeny assembly tool for ecologists.

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Tree of life for the genera of Chinese vascular plants

Chen

Yang

et al. 2016

J of Sytematics Evolution

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“…In the Brazilian savanna, fire was the main factor driving plant diversification on a regional scale in the late Miocene through the Pliocene and Pleistocene, from 9.8 to 0.4 Mya, coinciding with the dominance of C4 grasses (Simon et al 2009). We hypothesize that the rocky grasslands inve stigated in this study were affected by fire during that period, by which the Velloziaceae, a Gondwana family, had already appeared (Mello-Silva et al 2011).…”

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Massive post-fire flowering events in a tropical mountain region of Brazil: high episodic supply of floral resources

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“…Typical elements include the Gondwanan families (e.g. Mello-Silva et al 2011): Eriocaulaceae, Velloziaceae and Xyridaceae, whereas Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Melastomataceae, Orchidaceae, Poaceae, Bromeliaceae, Lamiaceae and Rubiaceae also figure among the most species-rich families. This list is similar to that for the tepui flora (Berry and Riina 2005).…”

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