TY - JOUR T1 - Polyphyly of the genus Micromeria (Lamiaceae) - evidence from cpDNA sequence data JF - Taxon Y1 - 2005 A1 - C Brauchler A1 - H Meimberg A1 - T Abele A1 - G Heubl SP - 639–650 KW - Clinopodium KW - Dna-Sequences KW - Genera KW - Labiatae KW - Lamiaceae KW - Micromeria KW - Molecular phylogeny KW - Polyphyly KW - Trnk KW - trnL-F AB - Micromeria Benth. (Lamiaceae, Nepetoideac) is a very common genus in the Mediterranean region. To test the monophyly of the genus and to elucidate its phylogenetic placement within subtribe Menthinae (Dumort) Endl, of tribe Mentheae Dumort we performed parsimony analysis of trnK intron sequence data of 51 accessions representing 15 genera of Nepetoideae and two genera of subfamily Ajugoideae. Tree topology reveals a well-supported "core group" indicating four distinct lineages. The first one comprises three species of Satureja L. s.str., the second one includes taxa of the genus Clinopodium L. from both the Old and the New World, paraphyletic with respect to Monarda L. and two species of Micromeria section Pseudomelissa Benth. A third group contains all samples of the remaining Micromeria species. Within this monophyly, a western lineage including taxa, from NW Africa, the Balearic, and the Canary Islands, is sister to an eastern lineage with species distributed from SE Asia to the western Mediterranean. In a further clade the genera Thymbra L., Thymus L., and Origanum L. are grouped together. Combined analysis using a reduced dataset of trnK/trnL-F sequences increased support for the infrageneric resolution within Micromeria. Based on the phylogenetic reconstructions there is evidence that the genus as currently circumscribed is polyphyletic. Results are discussed in the context of morphology, karyology, and biogeography, outlining the necessity of removing section Pseudomelissa from Micromeria. VL - 54 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A preliminary phylogeny of the genus Cunila D. Royen ex L. (Lamiaceae) based on ITS rDNA and trnL-F regions JF - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Y1 - 2012 DO - 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.030 A1 - G Agostini A1 - S Echeverrigaray A1 - T T Souza-Chies SP - 739–747 KW - Cunila KW - Cunila taxonomy KW - ITS rDNA KW - Lamiaceae KW - Phylogenetic analyses KW - trnL-F AB - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 65 (2012) 739-747. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.030 VL - 65 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.030 ER -