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Citation for Study 10044

About Citation title: "The Phylogeny of Leucotho? s. l. (Ericaceae: Vaccinioideae) Based on Morphological and Molecular (ndhF, matK, and nrITS) Data.".
About This study was previously identified under the legacy study ID S2384 (Status: Published).

Citation

Bush C., Judd W., & Kron K. 2010. The Phylogeny of Leucotho? s. l. (Ericaceae: Vaccinioideae) Based on Morphological and Molecular (ndhF, matK, and nrITS) Data. Systematic Botany, 35(1): 201-206.

Authors

  • Bush C.
  • Judd W.
  • Kron K.

Abstract

Leucothoe s.l. has been split into as many as three genera in current taxonomic work involving morphological data. In this paper, phylogenetic relationships within the Leucothoe s.l. were examined using DNA sequence from matK, ndhF, nrITS, and morphological characters. The results indicate that Leucothoe s.l. species are distributed between two clades. Leucothoe racemosa and L. recurva are stongly supported as being sister taxa and are in turn sister to Chamaedaphne calyculata. These two Leucothoe species are deciduous and they exhibit "L.racemosa"-type autumn inflorescences (as does Chamaedaphne). The other six Leucothoe s.l. species (L. axillaris, L. davisiae, L. fontanesiana, L. grayana, L. griffithiana, and L. keiskei) form a strongly supported clade. Leucothoe grayana, a morphologically distinct taxon, is sister to the other five species in the clade. Based on these data, it is proposed that Leucothoe s.l. should be divided into three genera: Eubotryoides (E. grayana), Eubotrys (E. racemosa and E. recurva) and Leucothoe s.s. (L. axillaris, L. davisiae, L. fontanesiana, L. griffithiana and L. keiskei).

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