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Phylogenetic relationships and generic delimitation of sub-SaharanScilla (Hyacinthaceae) and allied African genera as inferred from morphological and DNA sequence data

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The genusScilla has recently been split into two genera,Scilla s. str. andLedebouria, based on morphological characters of South African species. This splitting, as well as the phylogenetic relationships between these genera and the related generaDrimia andDrimiopsis, is here discussed in the light of cladistic analyses of morphological and DNA sequence data of species from tropical Africa, the Mediterranean and India. Two chloroplast DNA regions are analysed: the intergenic spacer between thetRNA genesL(UAA) andF(GAA) and theL(UAA) intron.

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Stedje, B. Phylogenetic relationships and generic delimitation of sub-SaharanScilla (Hyacinthaceae) and allied African genera as inferred from morphological and DNA sequence data. Pl Syst Evol 211, 1–11 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00984908

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