Abstract
Although Echinosophora Nakai has been known as a monotypic and endemic genus of Papillionoideae of Fabaceae in Korea, it has been controversial whether it is distinct from or merged with Sophora. To resolve this matter, we conducted molecular phylogenetic analyses using nucleotide sequence data from the plastid rbcL gene and trnL (UAA) intron. Parsimony analysis, using a total of 53 taxa of the Papillionoideae (including E. koreensis [Nakai] Nakai and several species of Sophora and related genera) and using 20 taxa of Caesalpinioideae and Mimosoideae as outgroups, showed that, although the examined species of Sophora are split into two clades, E. koreensis formed a common clade with S. tomentosa (the type species of the genus) and S. flavescens. E. koreensis therefore should be treated as S. koreensis Nakai, and the generic name Echinosophora be eliminated. We also investigated the embryology of S. koreensis (=E. koreensis) and S. flavescens and found that no differences existed between them. Our molecular study, like other studies, strongly suggested that Sophora is polyphyletic. In this study we presented a summary of embryological features of the core Sophora for future critical comparison with related and unrelated taxa.
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This study was supported by Grants-in-Aid (Nos. 3001139-1-1 and 2001338) from Scientific Foundation of Kangwon National University to Kweon Heo.
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Taxa and GenBank accession numbers are listed in Table 2.
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Lee, W.K., Tokuoka, T. & Heo, K. Molecular evidence for the inclusion of the Korean endemic genus “Echinosophora” in Sophora (Fabaceae), and embryological features of the genus. J Plant Res 117, 209–219 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-004-0150-x
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