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Citation for Study 316

About Citation title: "Phylogenetic systematics of Pontederiaceae.".
About This study was previously identified under the legacy study ID S235 (Status: Published).

Citation

Eckenwalder J., & Barrett S. 1986. Phylogenetic systematics of Pontederiaceae. Systematic Botany, 11: 373-391.

Authors

  • Eckenwalder J.
  • Barrett S.

Abstract

Six different methods of cladogram construction were applied to a data set embracing 34 species and subspecies of Pontederiaceae. Nineteen Wagner trees were constructed using different combinations of character subsets and outgroups. Although 12 trees were constructed using the largest character cliques uncovered by character compatibility analysis, these were highly unresolved. Four additional trees were constructed using phenetic methods. Trees resulting from the various procedures were compared using several optimality criteria. Wagner trees based on all 42 characters or on the subset of 27 reproductive characters were most successful according to these criteria. Branch-swapping trials, based upon common features found in the Wagner and other trees produced another 10 trees that were as successful as the Wagner trees. The number of about equally successful trees is partly a function of homoplasy. Two-thirds of the character state changes on the trees are homoplasious. The primitive breeding system of the Pontederiaceae is not clearly resolved, but heterostyly is probably a synapomorphy of only one lineage of the family. A vicariance explanation of the biogeography of the family, based on a Gondwanan distribution, seems less parsimonious than an origin in South America, followed by several eastward dispersals. While Monochoria and Pontederia are apparently monophyletic under different analyses, Eichhornia and Heteranthera, as presently circumscribed, are probably paraphyletic.

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