@article{f14af12eefb14f48a190dc6606fafaef,
title = "Phylogeny of Acanthophyllum s.l. revisited: An update on generic concept and sectional classification",
abstract = "The generic boundary of the broadly defined Acanthophyllum s.l., the third-largest genus of the tribe Caryophylleae (Caryophyllaceae), has been a subject of taxonomic confusion. Acanthophyllum s.l. now includes five minor genera previously recognized as independent. Among these small genera, the inclusion of Allochrusa, Ochotonophila, and Scleranthopsis within Acanthophyllum s.l. was confirmed by previous molecular studies, while the positions of Diaphanoptera and Kuhitangia remained uncertain. We have performed an updated molecular study of Acanthophyllum s.l. including an increased sampling of the genera and sections assigned to this group, using intron sequences of the chloroplast gene rps16 and nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences. Cyathophylla, Heterochroa, and Saponaria were chosen as outgroups for performing phylogenetic analyses using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods. The present results suggest that, in addition to the genera mentioned above, both Diaphanoptera and Kuhitangia should also be synonymized within Acanthophyllum. Sections Diaphanoptera, Kuhitangia and Pseudomacrostegia are introduced as new infrageneric taxa within Acanthophyllum. Our results also indicate that some annual species of Saponaria are closely related to Acanthophyllum.",
keywords = "annual Saponaria, Caryophylleae, Diaphanoptera, Irano-Turanian, Kuhitangia, sect. Macrostegia",
author = "Atefeh Pirani and Hamid Moazzeni and Shahin Zarre and Rabeler, {Richard K.} and Bengt Oxelman and Pavlenko, {Alexander V.} and Andriy Kovalchuk",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Mohammad Mahmoodi (Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran), Jalil Noroozi (University of Vienna, Vienna), Saeide Hoseini (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad), Farshid Memariani (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad), Alexey Grebenjuk (Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg), Aleksandr Ebel (Tomsk State University, Tomsk), Alim Gaziev (Tashkent), and Georgy Lazkov (Institute for Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Bishkek), for their kind help during different steps of this work. We also wish to thank curators at B, BM, FUMH, G, GB, H, JE, K, LD, LE, M, MSB, TARI, TASH, TK, TMRC, TUH and WU for the loan and permission to study plant material used in this study. The herbarium of RBG Edinburgh (E) is thanked for providing photos of their s.l. specimens. James Solomon (MO) kindly provided a copy of Preobraschensky ( ). Financial support provided by the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (Grant No. 41705‐2) is appreciated. Acanthophyllum Funding Information: We are grateful to Mohammad Mahmoodi (Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran), Jalil Noroozi (University of Vienna, Vienna), Saeide Hoseini (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad), Farshid Memariani (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad), Alexey Grebenjuk (Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg), Aleksandr Ebel (Tomsk State University, Tomsk), Alim Gaziev (Tashkent), and Georgy Lazkov (Institute for Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Bishkek), for their kind help during different steps of this work. We also wish to thank curators at B, BM, FUMH, G, GB, H, JE, K, LD, LE, M, MSB, TARI, TASH, TK, TMRC, TUH and WU for the loan and permission to study plant material used in this study. The herbarium of RBG Edinburgh (E) is thanked for providing photos of their Acanthophyllum s.l. specimens. James Solomon (MO) kindly provided a copy of Preobraschensky (). Financial support provided by the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (Grant No. 41705-2) is appreciated. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 International Association for Plant Taxonomy Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1002/tax.12241",
language = "English",
volume = "69",
pages = "500--514",
journal = "Taxon",
issn = "0040-0262",
publisher = "Wiley-VCH Verlag",
number = "3",
}