Mahonia vs. Berberis Unloaded: Generic Delimitation and Infrafamilial Classification of Berberidaceae Based on Plastid Phylogenomics.

ABSTRACT: The early-diverging eudicot family Berberidaceae is composed of a morphologically diverse assemblage of disjunctly distributed genera long praised for their great horticultural and medicinal values. However, despite century-long studies, generic delimitation of Berberidaceae remains controversial and its tribal classification has never been formally proposed under a rigorous phylogenetic context. Currently, the number of accepted genera in Berberidaceae ranges consecutively from 13 to 19, depending on whether to define Berberis, Jeffersonia, and Podophyllum broadly, or to segregate these three genera further and recognize Alloberberis, Mahonia, and Moranothamnus, Plagiorhegma, and Dysosma, Diphylleia, and Sinopodophyllum

SUBMITTER: Hsieh CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8770955 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature