Barking up the wrong tree the dangers of taxonomic misidentification in molecular phylogenetic studies

• Published in: Plant ecology and evolution Vol. 156; no. 2; pp. 146 - 159
• Main Authors: de Almeida, Rafael Felipe, Pellegrini, Marco O.O., de Morais, Isa L., Simão-Bianchini, Rosangela, Rattanakrajang, Pantamith, Cheek, Martin, Simões, Ana Rita G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Meise Royal Botanical Society of Belgium 01.01.2023; Pensoft Publishers; Meise Botanic Garden
• Subjects: Bayesian analysis; Cheek, Martin; Datasets; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA sequencing; Gene sequencing; Genera; Genetic testing; Isotypes; Leaves; Malpighiaceae; Morphology; Nucleotide sequence; Nucleotide sequencing; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Placement; Plant morphology; RESEARCH ARTICLE; Statistical inference; Taxonomy; Brazil; United Kingdom

Background and aims – Keraunea is a Brazilian endemic genus that has sat uncomfortably in Convolvulaceae where it was placed due to an enlarged and adnate fruit bract typical of Neuropeltis . A recent molecular phylogeny suggested that two of its five morphologically almost identical species actuall...