Open AccessMolecular phylogeny and habitat diversification of the genus Farfugium (Asteraceae) based on nuclear rDNA and plastid DNA
Author(s) -
Naofumi Nomura,
Tokushiro Takaso,
ChingI Peng,
Yoshiko Kono,
Kazuo Oginuma,
Yuki Mitsui,
Hiroaki Setoguchi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
annals of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1095-8290
pISSN - 0305-7364
DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcq139
Subject(s) - biology , internal transcribed spacer , monophyly , polyphyly , genus , taxon , introgression , population , phylogenetic tree , botany , ecology , evolutionary biology , zoology , clade , gene , biochemistry , demography , sociology
Farfugium (Asteraceae) is a small genus that contains the two species F. japonicum and F. hiberniflorum and is distributed along a long archipelago in east Asia. The common taxon, F. japonicum, includes three varieties associated with a wide range of habitats, including forest understorey (sciophytes), coastal crag (heliophytes) and riverbed (rheophytes). Leaf shape is an important taxonomic character within this genus and is associated with the habitat.
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