TY - JOUR A1 - Ladiges, PY A1 - Humphries, CJ T1 - Relationships in the Stringybarks, Eucalyptus L'hérit. Informal Subgenus Monocalyptus Series Capitellatae and Olsenianae: Phylogenetic Hypotheses, Biogeography and Classification JF - Australian Journal of Botany JO - Aust. J. Bot. Y1 - 1986 VL - 34 IS - 6 SP - 603 EP - 632 KW - UR - https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9860603 N2 - The stringybark eucalypts form a monophyletic group characterised in Monocalyptus by hispid juvenile leaves. They have been analysed using a phenetic method, additive similarity trees and a cladistic parsimony method (Wagner trees). The shortest Wagner trees indicated that Eucalyptus muelleriana is the sister species to all other stringybarks. E. olsenii and a taxon from the Carnarvon Range (Queensland) are the next most plesiomorphic taxa in the phyletic sequence. The remaining taxa form a trichotomy: E. tindaliae, species with fruits > 8 mm in diameter and with the disc ascending, and species with fruits < 8 mm and with the disc level. Subclades are largely characterised by seedling morphology. A revised informal classification is presented, the group being treated as a superseries. A method of cladistic biogeography is explained and applied. The stringybarks are endemic to eastern mainland Australia plus Kangaroo Island, but not Tasmania, and the consensus area-cladogram suggests a sequence of seven historical events subdividing an ancestral area into eight smaller ones. Queensland appears to be the most plesiomorphic area. ER -