New taxa of rainforest Myrtaceae from northern Queensland

Wilson, Peter G.; Hyland, B. P. M.

doi:10.7751/telopea19884812

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“…Whereas the exemplar species of Xanthostemon (X. chrysanthus) has spiral phyllotaxis throughout (state 2), there are a few species that show an additional state, i.e., spiral seedling phyllotaxis that changes to opposite (Wilson, 1990); this state may have arisen more than once in this genus. The only other genus of Myrtaceae known to show this state is Barongia (Wilson and Hyland, 1988).…”

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Myrtaceae revisited: a reassessment of infrafamilial groups

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O'Brien

Gadek

et al. 2001

American J of Botany

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Cladistic analyses are presented of matK sequence data as well as a nonmolecular database for an identical set of exemplar species chosen to represent the core genera or groups of genera in Myrtaceae. Eleven robust clades are recognized on the molecular data. Polyphyly of the previously recognized Metrosideros and Leptospermum alliances is confirmed, and several smaller informal taxonomic groupings are recognized from among the members of the former alliance, i.e., the Tristania, Tristaniopsis, Metrosideros, and Lophostemon groups. The nonmolecular analysis provides only limited resolution of relationships. A degree of congruence exists between the two analyses in that two separate fleshy-fruited clades, the Acmena and Myrtoid groups, are identified, as are the Eucalypt and Tristania groups, and Psiloxylon and Heteropyxis are the first lineages to diverge in both analyses. A combined analysis recognized all 11 clades that received strong support from the molecular data. A high level of homoplasy is revealed in many of the nonmolecular characters when they are examined against the combined estimate of phylogeny.

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