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ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
Volume 104, Issue 1, Pages 69-82Publisher
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
DOI: 10.3417/2018215
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Anthurium; Araceae; lectotypification; monophyly tests; Neotropics; sectional classification
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- National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant [DEB-0709851]
- Botanical Society of America
- American Society of Plant Taxonomists
- Garden Club of America
- E. Desmond Lee Fund at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
- Kew Latin American Research Fellowship
- Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis through its Christensen Fellowship
- Missouri Botanical Garden
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This study presents an evaluation of the currently accepted sectional classification of the genus Anthurium Schott (Araceae) in light of a recently published molecular phylogeny for the group. In general, disagreements between these two occur because many diagnostic morphological characters used in the sectional classification turned out to be highly homoplasious within Anthurium, with multiple independent gains or losses of seemingly similar morphologies in distantly related clades. A new sectional classification of Anthurium that more accurately represents species relationships and the evolutionary history of the genus is much needed, and here we propose the first steps toward it. Results from this study suggest that out of the 18 sections and two series recognized in Anthurium, only seven of these groups are monophyletic (i. e., sections Andiphilum (Schott) Croat, Calomystrium (Schott) Engl., Dactylophyllium (Schott) Engl., Leptanthurium (Schott) Engl., Polyphyllium Engl., Tetraspermium (Schott) Engl., and the newly recognized section Multinervia (Croat) Carlsen & Croat, previously a series within section Pachyneurium (Schott) Engl.). All other sections are either not monophyletic or their monophyly could not be accurately tested. A complete revision of the sectional classification of Anthurium will require a more comprehensive taxon sampling and a better supported molecular phylogeny.
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