Fassettia, a new North American genus of family Ceratophyllaceae: evidence based on cladistic analyses of current molecular data of Ceratophyllum
Evgeny V. Mavrodiev
A E , David M. Williams B , Malte C. Ebach C and Anna E. Mavrodieva D
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A Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, PO Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
B Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
C Paleontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.
D University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32641, USA.
E Corresponding author. Email: evgeny@ufl.edu
Australian Systematic Botany 34(5) 431-437 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB20008
Submitted: 22 April 2020 Accepted: 27 April 2021 Published: 06 July 2021
Abstract
The major goal of this study was to re-analyse a published molecular dataset based on ITS and matK sequences of the genus Ceratophyllum (Ceratophyllaceae) within a cladistic framework, operating only with rooted trees. The problem is lack of an identifiable suitable outgroup to Ceratophyllum. We show different ways to root trees and thus resolve the sister group relationships within this genus. We root the trees using an all zero outgroup or a combination of exemplar taxa from among monocots (Acorus), eudcots (Ranunculus) and Chloranthus. Ceratophyllum echinatum was consistently strongly supported as sister to all of the remaining taxa of the genus. This observation is congruent with the earlier results of Les who noted the uniqueness of C. echinatum in a series of comprehensive morphological and biosystematic studies. We, here, transfer C. echinatum to a new and presumably monotypic genus Fassettia Mavrodiev. The exact taxonomic circumscription of Fassettia requires further investigation.
Keywords: taxonomy, standard maximum parsimony, three-taxon statement analysis, average consensus
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