Claim · model-written summary
Cardamine is not monophyletic, with Loxostemon nested within the genus.
- Outcome
- monophyletice1
Verbatim
e0“The genus Cardamine (Brassicaceae) exhibits remarkable species diversity and endemism in the Hengduan-Himalayan Mountains (HHM) of East Asia”
e1“Cardamine is not monophyletic, with Loxostemon nested within the genus”
Title
Jia-lu Li; Dan-hui Liu; Dan-hui Liu; et al. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2026. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2026.108647
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Diagnostic morphological characters used to delimit Loxostemon evolved repeatedly and independently.
- Recommendation The authors support synonymizing Loxostemon under Cardamine.
- Observation The core HHM clade of Cardamine originated approximately 4.34 Ma.
- Observation The core HHM clade rapidly radiated between 4.34 and 1.86 Ma, temporally coincident with major uplift events of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.
- Mechanism Rapid diversification of Cardamine was driven by reticulate evolution with incomplete lineage sorting and frequent hybridization.