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Out of southern Africa: Origin, biogeography and age of the Aizooideae (Aizoaceae).
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Apr 2017
Klak Cornelia, Hanáček Pavel, Bruyns Peter V
Abstract excerpt
The Aizooideae is an early-diverging lineage within the Aizoaceae. It is most diverse in southern Africa, but also has endemic species in Australasia, Eurasia and South America. We derived a phylogenetic hypothesis from Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood analyses of plastid DNA-sequences. We find that one of the seven genera, the fynbos-endemic Acrosanthes, does not belong to the Aizooideae, but is an ancient...
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