Claim · model-written summary
Xanthorrhoeaceae was sister to core asparagoids.
Verbatim
e0“The highly supported clade of Xanthorrhoeaceae s.l. (sensu APG III, including Asphodelaceae and Hemerocallidaceae) is sister to the core asparagoids”
Title
Joo-Hwan Kim; Dong-Kap Kim; Felix Forest; et al. Annals of Botany 2010. doi:10.1093/aob/mcq167
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Method / resource Three genes yielded the most resolved and supported topology yet for sampled Asparagales.
- Observation Parsimony and Bayesian trees were nearly identical apart from some core asparagoid variation.
- Observation Core asparagoids resolved into five major clades.
- Observation Aphyllanthes placement differed between parsimony and Bayesian analyses.
- Observation Ruscaceae was a well-supported group.
- Observation Asparagaceae was sister to Ruscaceae with weak clade support.
- Observation Laxmanniaceae was strongly supported as sister to Ruscaceae and Asparagaceae.
- Observation Ruscaceae comprised six principal clades.
- Observation New data largely reproduced previous phylogenetic results.