Phylogenetic and biogeographic insights into the reproductive evolution and taxonomy of Australasian Teucrium (Lamiaceae)

Trevor C. Wilson; Elizabeth A. James

doi:10.1071/SB24027

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Phylogenetic and biogeographic insights into the reproductive evolution and taxonomy of Australasian Teucrium (Lamiaceae)

Trevor C. Wilson

^A ^* and Elizabeth A. James

^B

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^A Plant Discovery and Evolution Research, Australian Botanic Garden, Locked Bag 6002, Mount Annan, NSW 2567, Australia.

^B Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Vic. 3004, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: trevor.c.wilson@botanicgardens.nsw.gov.au

Handling Editor: Daniel Murphy

Australian Systematic Botany 38, SB24027 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB24027

Submitted: 23 August 2024 Accepted: 9 June 2025 Published: 7 July 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

Reproductive systems in Lamiaceae typically consist of bilabiate zygomorphic flowers and dry mericarp fruit, therefore examining deviations from this strategy contributes to our understanding of evolution. Teucrium L. (Lamiaceae: Ajugoideae) is easily recognised by the unilabiate flower. The genus is cosmopolitan but most speciose in the Mediterranean region. Previous phylogenetic analysis showing three segregate genera nested within Teucrium raises questions about the taxon’s dispersal throughout the region and the distinctive morphological changes. We conducted phylogenomic analyses of nuclear genes sequenced by targeted enrichment (Angiosperms353) for all Australasian species, phrase names and outgroups (39 total). Results show high support for most species clades and unequivocally place most ‘unknowns’ in context with other described taxa. Australasian Teucrium constitute at least two distantly related clades. The most speciose, with a crown age of 10.2–14.8 Ma, is widespread across Australia and includes an arid-adapted lineage that evolved actinomorphic corollas and fleshy fruits. The second clade of three eastern Australian species has a crown age of 5.9–12.2 Ma that corresponds best with dispersal associated with the Sunda–Sahul collision. Our results highlight repeated colonisation of Teucrium in Australia and corresponding shifts towards animal dispersal that took place as early as c. 9.2 Ma.

Keywords: Ajugoideae, Angiosperms353, dispersal, GAP, Genomics for Australian Plants, HybPiper, morphological adaptation, target bait capture sequencing.

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