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A cladistic analysis of phylogenetic relationships in thePrimulales has been conducted, based on nucleotide sequence data from the chloroplast DNA generbcL. The analysis included 16 taxa representing all three families in the order, and also six genera from other orders, viz.Magnolia (Magnoliaceae),Caltha (Ranunculaceae),Geranium (Geraniaceae),Nicotiana (Solanaceae),Diospyros (Ebenaceae), andManilkara (Sapotaceae). Previous cladistic analyses of morphological data have indicated that theTheophrastaceae are monophyletic, and that theMyrsinaceae are paraphyletic if including the genusMaesa. The results of the present work corroborate this conclusion, but also indicate that thePrimulaceae are paraphyletic.Maesa is part of an unresolved clade that also include theTheophrastaceae and thePrimulaceae, and theMyrsinaceae s. str. The latter is part of a monophyletic group also comprising thePrimulaceae-Lysimachiinae andCyclamen. It is concluded that dramatic changes in family circumscriptions are needed in order for taxonomy to reflect strictly monophyletic groups in thePrimulales.
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Anderberg, A.A., Ståhl, B. & Källersjö, M. Phylogenetic relationships in thePrimulales inferred fromrbcL sequence data. Pl Syst Evol 211, 93–102 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00984914
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