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The Bromeliaceae tank dweller Bromeliophila (Lejeuneaceae, Porellales) is a member of the Cyclolejeunea-Prionolejeunea clade

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The Neotropical genus Bromeliophila includes two species that grow exclusively in the water-filled leaf axils of Bromeliaceae. Phylogenetic analyses of a three marker dataset (chloroplast genome rbcL gene and trnL-F region, and nuclear ribosomal ITS1-5.8S-ITS-2 region) confirmed the monophyly of Bromeliophila and provided evidence for a sister relationship of Bromeliophila and Prionolejeunea; this clade is in turn sister to Cyclolejeunea. Despite remarkable morphological similarities, Bromeliophila is not closely related to Lejeunea and its close relatives Harpalejeunea and Microlejeunea. Based on the molecular topology and morphological evidence, Cyclolejeunea is subdivided in subgenus Cyclolejeunea and the monospecific subgenera Hyalolejeunea and Nephrolejeunea. Genetic relationships among multiple accessions of the same species support currently accepted morphological–typological species concepts.

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We are grateful to the directors and curators of the herbaria cited in the text for the loan of specimens and the permission for destructive sampling. This study was supported by the German Research Foundation [HE 3584/2 and 3584/4]. SD was supported by the China Scholarship Council (scholarship No. 2010697001). This is publication number 118 from the Courant Research Centre Geobiology that is funded by the German Initiative of Excellence.

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  1. Systematic Botany, Faculty of Biology, University of Munich (LMU), Menzinger Str. 67, 80638, Munich, Germany

    Jochen Heinrichs & Kathrin Feldberg

  2. Department of Systematic Botany, Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg August University, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073, Göttingen, Germany

    Aleksandra Czumaj, Shanshan Dong & Armin Scheben

  3. Mittlere Letten 11, 88634, Herdwangen-Schönach, Germany

    Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp

  4. Instituto de Botânica, Caixa Postal 68041, 04045-972, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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  5. Courant Research Centre Geobiology, Georg August University, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077, Göttingen, Germany

    Alexander R. Schmidt

  6. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum London, London, SW7 5BD, UK

    Harald Schneider

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Heinrichs, J., Czumaj, A., Dong, S. et al. The Bromeliaceae tank dweller Bromeliophila (Lejeuneaceae, Porellales) is a member of the Cyclolejeunea-Prionolejeunea clade. Plant Syst Evol 300, 63–73 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-013-0860-4

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