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A phylogeny of the ITS and ETS for Montanoa (Asteraceae: Heliantheae)
Anne E Plovanich1, Jose L Panero
1Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Abstract:
A phylogeny of the genus Montanoa based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and the external transcribed spacer (ETS) is presented. Each of the two clades revealed by the Bayesian and parsimony analyses has approximately half of the number of species in the genus. One lineage is composed mostly of central and southern Mexican species whereas the other lineage contains those species endemic to Mesoamerica and South America. The molecular phylogeny is compared to previous phylogenetic hypotheses based on morphological characters. Key features in the structure of the capitulum such as pale morphology, heavily used in the past to construct hypotheses of relationship within the genus, are viewed as of minimal value to circumscribe natural groups. The relationships of Montanoa to other genera in the Heliantheae are briefly discussed.
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