Molecular and Morphological Data Improve the Classification of Plantagineae (Lamiales)

The tribe Plantagineae (Lamiales) is a group of plants with worldwide distribution, notorious for its complicated taxonomy and still unresolved natural history. We describe the result of a broadly sampled phylogenetic study of tribe. The expanded sampling dataset is based on the <i>trn</i&g...

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Autores principales: Alexey Shipunov, José Luis Fernández-Alonso, Gustavo Hassemer, Sean Alp, Hye Ji Lee, Kyle Pay
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/367f17a502be427a9816a4dbd58e1686
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Sumario:The tribe Plantagineae (Lamiales) is a group of plants with worldwide distribution, notorious for its complicated taxonomy and still unresolved natural history. We describe the result of a broadly sampled phylogenetic study of tribe. The expanded sampling dataset is based on the <i>trn</i>L-F spacer, <i>rbc</i>L, and ITS2 markers across all three included genera (<i>Aragoa</i>, <i>Littorella</i> and <i>Plantago</i>) and makes this the most comprehensive study to date. The other dataset uses five markers and provides remarkably good resolution throughout the tree, including support for all of the major clades. In addition to the molecular phylogeny, a morphology database of 114 binary characters was assembled to provide comparison with the molecular phylogeny and to develop a means to assign species not sampled in the molecular analysis to their most closely related species that were sampled. Based on the molecular phylogeny and the assignment algorithm to place unsampled species, a key to sections is presented, and a revised classification of the tribe is provided. We also include the description of new species from North America.