“…The affinity of some members of Pimpinella with the tribes Oenantheae, Selineae, and the clades Acronema and East Asia, and the polyphyly of the genus, were inferred in earlier phylogenetic studies (Figure 1) (Downie and Katz-Downie, 1996;Zhou et al, 2008Zhou et al, , 2009Downie et al, 2010;Magee et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2014). Consistent with previous data (Magee et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2014), a close correlation was observed between geography and the phylogenetic tree in our analysis ( Figure 1).…”