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  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Phylogenetics

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  • Fundamental angiosperm interrelationships are poorly understood.
  • Defining a suitable gymnosperm outgroup for cladistic analysis is challenging.
  • Monocotyledons and Magnoliiflorae are considered near the base of angiosperm phylogeny.

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  • To investigate angiosperm interrelationships using cladistic analysis.
  • To evaluate character evolution under different hypotheses of the primitive angiosperm morphotype.
  • To assess the impact of homoplasy on phylogenetic reconstruction.

Main Methods:

  • Construction of a data matrix with 61 characters for 49 angiosperm taxa.
  • Phylogenetic analysis using computerized parsimony.
  • Polarization of characters based on two contrasting hypotheses of the primitive angiosperm morphotype (woody dicotyledon vs. herbaceous monocotyledon).

Main Results:

  • Numerous equally parsimonious solutions were obtained from the parsimony analysis.
  • High levels of homoplasy were observed in the character data.
  • The study highlights the difficulty in resolving deep angiosperm phylogeny with current data.

Conclusions:

  • Current data and methods reveal significant homoplasy, complicating the reconstruction of angiosperm phylogeny.
  • Further research with improved character data is needed to clarify fundamental angiosperm interrelationships.
  • The study underscores the incomplete nature of our knowledge regarding early angiosperm evolution.