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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 19(4)

Reinstatement of Loxogramme dictyopteris, based on phylogenetic evidence, for the New Zealand endemic fern, Anarthropteris lanceolata (Polypodiaceae, Polypodiidae)

Hans-Peter Kreier A and Harald Schneider A B
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A Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37083 Göttingen, Germany.

B Corresponding author. Email: hschnei3@gwdg.de

Australian Systematic Botany 19(4) 309-314 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB05033
Submitted: 19 October 2005  Accepted: 24 April 2006   Published: 25 August 2006

Abstract

Phylogenetic relationships of the New Zealand endemic Anarthropteris lanceolata are inferred from DNA sequences of four chloroplast genome regions, rbcL, rps4, rps4–trnS IGS, and trnL–F IGS. In addition to a broad collection of polygrammoid ferns, the sampling includes two species of the genus Dictymia, five species of the genus Loxogramme, and one sample of the monotypic genus Anarthropteris. The latter is found to be nested within Loxogramme, and we reinstate it here as Loxogramme dictyopteris, to replace Anarthropteris lanceolata. These findings are not in conflict with morphological evidence. Phylogenetic evidence implies an isolation of L. dictyopteris from its closest relatives in Malesia. The five other species of Loxogramme included in this study fall either into an Asiatic-Malesian clade or in an Afro-Madagascan-Neotropical clade.


Acknowledgments

We thank Ray Cranfill, Andreas Hemp, Razali Jaman, France Rakotondrainibe, Alan R. Smith, and curators and gardeners of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh for collections of plant materials used in this study. This work was supported by a Grant of the German Science Foundation SCHN 785 / 2-1 to HS under the SPP 1127 ‘Adaptive radiations—origin of biological diversity’.


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Appendix 1. List of vouchers and GenBank accession numbers for loxogrammoid ferns included in this data set. For information on other taxa please consult Schneider et al. (2006)

Anarthropteris lanceolata (J. Sm. ex Hook. f.) Pic. Serm. = Loxogramme dictyopteris (Mett.) Copel.; New Zealand, Cranfill s.n. (UC); rbcL; AY096107; rps4: AY096214; trnL–F DQ227303—Dictymia mackeei Tindale; cult. RBG Edinburgh, coll. Nr. 19842659, rbcL DQ164441; rps4 DQ164472; trnL–F DQ164504—Dictymia brownii (Wikstr.) Copel.; cult. UC Bot. Gard, cult. Nr 54.1240, originally from Australia, Werner 21 (UC 1229141); rbcL DQ227292; rps4 DQ227295; trnL–F DQ235156—Loxogramme abyssinica (Baker) M.G. Price; Tanzania, Hemp 3638 (DSM); rbcL DQ164443; rps4 DQ164474; trnL–F DQ164506—Loxogramme abyssinica (Baker) M.G. Price; Grande Comoros, Rakotodrainibe FR6711 (P); rbcL DQ235157 / DQ235158; rps4 DQ235155; trnL–F DQ235156—Loxogramme avenia (Blume) C. Presl; Malay Peninsula, Jaman 5866 (UC); rbcL DQ227293; rps4 AY096215; trnL–F DQ227299—Loxogramme grammitoides (Baker) C. Chr.; Hasebe 26661 (TI); rbcL U05631; cult. RBG Edinburgh, Coll. Nr. 728 / 18, original China, Gaoligong Shan Exp. 1997 (E); rps4 DQ227296—Loxogramme mexicana (Fée) C. Chr.; Nicaragua, Hall & Bockus 7896 (UC); trnL–F DQ227301—Loxogramme salicifolia (Makino) Makino; cult. RBG Edinburgh, Coll. Nr. 728 / 11, original from China, Cangshan Mountains1981 (E); rbcL DQ227294; rps4 DQ227297; trnL–F DQ227303.