Phylogeny of Cyperaceae Based on DNA Sequence Data: Current Progress and Future Prospects

By A. M. Muasya, D. Simpson, G. Anthony Verboom, P. Goetghebeur, R. Naczi, Mark W. Chase, Erik Smets. The Botanical review, 2009

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In the last decade, efforts to reconstruct suprageneric phylogeny of the Cyperaceae have intensified. We present an analysis of 262 taxa representing 93 genera in 15 tribes, sequenced for the plastid rbcL and trnL-F (intron and intergenic spacer). Cyperaceae are monophyletic and resolved into two clades, here recognised as Mapanioideae and Cyperoideae, and the overall topology is similar to results from previous studies. Within Cyperoideae, Trilepideae are sister to rest of taxa whereas Cryptangieae, Bisboeckelerieae and Sclerieae are resolved within Schoeneae. Cladium and Rhynchospora (and Pleurostachys) are resolved into clades sister to the rest of Schoeneae, lending support to the recognition of these taxa in separate tribes. However, we retain these taxa in Schoeneae pending broader sampling of the group. The phylogenetic position of 40 species in 21 genera is presented in this study for the first time, elucidating their position in Abildgaardieae (Trachystylis), Cryptangieae (Didymiandrum, Exochogyne), Cypereae (Androtrichum, Volkiella), Eleocharideae (Chillania), and Schoeneae (Calyptrocarya, Morelotia). More sampling effort (more taxa and the use of more rapidly evolving markers) is needed to resolve relationships in Fuireneae and Schoeneae.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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Towards a new classification of the giant paraphyletic genus Cyperus (Cyperaceae): phylogenetic relationships and generic delimitation in C4 Cyperus. (2013, background): “Based on recent molecular phylogenetic studies, Cyperaceae consists of two main clades, corresponding to subfamilies Cyperoideae and Mapanioideae (Simpson et al., 2003, 2007; Muasya et al., 2009a).”
Assembling the Tree of the Monocotyledons: Plastome Sequence Phylogeny and Evolution of Poales1 (2010, methodology): “We used the phylogenies produced by Simpson et al. (2003), Drábková and Vlček (2009), and Muasya et al. (2009) to infer that sunny habitats are ancestral to all families of the cyperids Thurniaceae–(Cyperaceae–Juncaceae), based on the occupancy of such sites (1) by both monotypic genera of…”