Abstract 2975 from Intl. Bot. Congress 1999

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Abstract Number: 2975
Session = 11.3.2

PHYLOGENETICS OF THE MONOCOTYLEDONS

J.I. Davis, #D.W. Stevenson, @J.V. Freudenstein, #C.R. Hardy, M.W. Simmons, #C.D. Specht, Cornell University, #New York Botanical Garden, @Kent State University.

Recent phylogenetic studies resolve Acorus, Alismatanae, and Aranae (approximately as circumscribed by Dahlgren, Clifford, and Yeo, 1995, Families of Monocotyledons) as early-diverging lineages within the monocots, but differ in the precise relationships resolved among these three groups and a fourth that includes all other monocots. In the latter group, a clade that includes Arecanae, Bromelianae, Commelinanae, and Zingiberanae (the ABCZ clade), and a clade that includes Cyclanthanae, Pandananae, and Velloziaceae (of Bromelianae) are nested among elements of a nonmonophyletic Lilianae. Current work on the higher-level structure of the monocots is focused on the Lilianae and on the ABCZ clade, within which Arecanae and Zingiberanae appear to be monophyletic, and Bromelianae and Commelinanae do not.

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PHYLOGENETICS OF THE MONOCOTYLEDONS

*J.I. Davis, #D.W. Stevenson, @J.V. Freudenstein, *#C.R. Hardy, *M.W. Simmons, #C.D. Specht, *Cornell University, #New York Botanical Garden, @Kent State University.

J.I. Davis, #D.W. Stevenson, @J.V. Freudenstein, #C.R. Hardy, M.W. Simmons, #C.D. Specht, Cornell University, #New York Botanical Garden, @Kent State University.