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23 March 2009 Paraphyly of Ixora and New Tribal Delimitation of Ixoreae (Rubiaceae): Inference from Combined Chloroplast (rps16, rbcL, and trnT-F) Sequence Data
Arnaud Mouly, Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison, Jacques Florence, Joël Jérémie, Birgitta Bremer
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Abstract

We performed phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences of three chloroplast markers: rbcL, rps16, and trnT-F, to rigorously test the monophyly of competing circumscriptions of the tribe Ixoreae. Several genera traditionally or currently associated with the type genus Ixora L. were included in the analyses. Ixora as currently circumscribed appears paraphyletic, as many other genera are nested within it with strong support: Captaincookia N. Hallé, Doricera Verdc., Hitoa Nadeaud, Myonima Comm. ex Juss., Sideroxyloides Jacq., Thouarsiora Homolle ex Arènes, and Versteegia Valeton. Further, Aleisanthia Ridl., Aleisanthiopsis Tange, and Greenea Wight & Arn. are more closely related to Ixora and allies than the monotypic genus Scyphiphora C. F. Gaertn. Consequently, Ixoreae fide Andreasen and Bremer (2000) is not monophyletic without an exclusion of Scyphiphora. Ixoreae fide Robbrecht and Manen (2006) is not monophyletic unless Captaincookia and Doricera are included. The monophyly of a morphologically heterogeneous Ixoreae alliance consisting of Ixora and its relatives Aleisanthia, Aleisanthiopsis, and Greenea is, however, strongly supported. In order to recognize monophyletic and morphologically consistent groups, we adopt a narrow circumscription of Ixoreae (including Bemsetia Raf., Captaincookia, Charpentiera Vieill., Doricera, Hitoa, Ixora, Myonima, Pancheria Montrouz., Sideroxyloides, Thouarsiora, Tsiangia But, H. H. Hsue & P. T. Li, and Versteegia), and two new tribes are erected for Aleisanthia Aleisanthiopsis and Greenea, respectively. The Indo-Malesian Aleisanthieae and the pantropical Ixoreae s. str. are sister groups, and the Southeast Asian Greeneeae is sister to the Ixoreae–Aleisanthieae clade.

Arnaud Mouly, Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison, Jacques Florence, Joël Jérémie, and Birgitta Bremer "Paraphyly of Ixora and New Tribal Delimitation of Ixoreae (Rubiaceae): Inference from Combined Chloroplast (rps16, rbcL, and trnT-F) Sequence Data," Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96(1), 146-160, (23 March 2009). https://doi.org/10.3417/2006194
Published: 23 March 2009
KEYWORDS
Aleisanthieae
cpDNA
Greeneeae
Ixora
Ixoreae
Ixoroideae
phylogeny
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