“…However, accD intergenic spacers, such as rbcL-accD and accD-psaI, have been much more widely used across disparate groups (Barfuss et al, 2005;Miikeda et al, 2006;Reginato et al, 2010;Sun et al, 2012;Michelangeli et al, 2013). The ycf1 gene appears to be moderately used (Gernandt et al, 2009;Guo et al, 2012;Majure et al, 2012;Shi et al, 2013;Whitten et al, 2013;Dastpak et al, 2018), and increasingly reported to be a useful marker in phylogenetic inferences (Neubig et al, 2009;Neubig and Abbott, 2010;Dong et al, 2012;Thomson et al, 2018), and the most promising plastid DNA barcode of land plants (Dong et al, 2015). The petD intron has been used (Löhne et al, 2007;Worberg et al, 2007;Borsch et al, 2009;Scataglini et al, 2014), but in our analysis the entire gene was used (exon + intron) showing phylogenetic utility.…”