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Issue: Vol. 441 No. 3: 5 May 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-05-05
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.441.3.4
Page range: 274–284
Abstract views: 19
PDF downloaded: 1

Phylogenetic relationships of Silene sections Lasiostemones and Sclerocalycine (Caryophyllaceae) in Iran

Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), P. O. Box 13185-116, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.
Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
ITS Lasiostemones molecular phylogeny rps16 Sclerocalycine Eudicots

Abstract

A phylogenetic study of Silene sect. Lasiostemones and sect. Sclerocalycine in Iran is presented. A total of 72 accessions (43 of which obtained from GenBank) were analyzed using nuclear ITS and chloroplast rps16 markers. It was shown that sect. Lasiostemones is not a monophyletic group, including members which would belong to sect. Sclerocalycine (i.e. S. tenella, S. longipetala, S. lasiantha, S. marschallii, S. propinqua) and sect. Siphonomorpha (i.e. S. ghahremaninejadii, S. shahrudensis, S. saxatilis, S. ruprechtii, S. parrowiana).