Claim · model-written summary
Cyathophorum bulbosum and C. adiantum formed a sister lineage to the remaining family.
- Taxon
- Cyathophorum bulbosum and C. adiantum
Cyathophorum bulbosumCyathophorum adiantume0 - Outcome
- lineage sister to the remainder of the familye0
Verbatim
e0“Cyathophorum bulbosum and C. adiantum make up a lineage sister to the remainder of the family.”
Title
Jonathan A. Shaw; Ingo Holz; Cymon J. Cox; et al. Systematic Botany 2008. doi:10.1600/036364408783887311
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Hypopterygiaceae was strongly supported as monophyletic.
- Observation Cyathophorum was unambiguously polyphyletic.
- Observation Dendrohypopterygium was unambiguously polyphyletic.
- Observation A lineage of four monotypic genera was sister to Lopidium and a heterogeneous clade.
- Observation Cyathophorum hookerianum was transferred to Hypopterygium.
- Observation Cyathophorum parvifolium was transferred to Hypopterygium.
- Observation Anisophylly and a border of differentiated lateral leaf cells distinguish Hypopterygiaceae from Hookeriaceae, with exceptions and repeated losses.
- Observation Intermediate cells in axillary hairs arose early in Hypopterygiaceae evolution but are absent in the two sister Cyathophorum species.