The tribe Jacarandeae includes
We reconstructed the phylogeny of Jacarandeae using chloroplast (
As circumscribed here, Jacarandeae includes only a broadly defined
This investigation establishes the first
We focused our phylogenomic inference on the largest taxonomic section in the genus
We show that neotropical
Our results point to the difficulty of morphology‐based intrageneric classification in this clade and highlight the importance of integrative taxonomy in future systematic revisions. We can confidently identify
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10371060
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- American Journal of Botany
- Volume:
- 106
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 0002-9122
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 154-165
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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