Comment on a new classification of the Eucalypts
Pauline Y. Ladiges and Frank Udovicic
Abstract
Brooker’s classification of the eucalypts, which combines
Angophora, Corymbiaand
Eucalyptus into one genus, is contrary to phylogenetic
evidence based on eight different data sets including morphology, RFLPs, and
sequence data for various regions of nuclear and chloroplast DNA (5S rDNA
spacer region, ITS1, ITS2, trnL intron,
trnL-F spacer and
psbA-trnH spacer). On this
evidence and the principle of recognising monophyletic taxa, we reject his
synonymy of these genera.
Australian Systematic Botany 13(1) 149 - 152 (2000) doi:10.1071/SB99011





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