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Neotrichocoleaceae

Neotrichocoleaceae is a family of liverworts in order Ptilidiales. It is closely related to the genera Ptilidium and Herzogianthus.

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Neotrichocoleaceae
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Jungermanniopsida
Order: Ptilidiales
Family: Neotrichocoleaceae
Inoue, 19741
Genera
  • Neotrichocolea
  • Trichocoleopsis

Neotrichocoleaceae is a family of liverworts in order Ptilidiales. It is closely related to the genera Ptilidium and Herzogianthus.

Phylogeny

Leafy II (2600 spp)

Ptilidium

Neotrichocoleaceae

Neotrichocolea

Trichocoleopsis

Leafy I (1800 spp)

The diagram at left summarizes a portion of a 2006 cladistic analysis of liverworts based upon three chloroplast genes, one nuclear gene, and one mitochondrial gene.23 The genus Trichocoleopsis was not included in the original broad analysis, but it is the sister taxon of Neotrichocolea according to a more narrowly focussed study utilizing six chloroplast genes, two nuclear genes, and a mitochondrial gene.4

The genus Ptilidium is sister to the Trichocoleopsis-Neotrichocolea clade. The genus Herzogianthus is also believed to be related to this group,5 although it was not included in either molecular analysis. This combined clade, in turn, attaches at the base of a large clade (2600 species) designated "Leafy II". That clade, together with "Leafy I" (another 1800 species) and Pleurozia constitute the Jungermanniales, as traditionally defined.

References

References

  1. Inoue, Hiroshi (1974). Illustrations of Japanese Hepaticae. Vol. I. Tokyo. pp. 1–189.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Forrest, Laura L.; Christine E. Davis; David G. Long; Barbara J. Crandall-Stotler; Alexandra Clark; Michelle L. Hollingsworth (2006). "Unraveling the evolutionary history of the liverworts (Marchantiophyta): multiple taxa, genomes and analyses". The Bryologist. 109 (3): 303–334. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2006)109[303:UTEHOT]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85912159.
  3. Davis, E. Christine (2004). "A Molecular Phylogeny of Leafy Liverworts (Jungermanniidae: Marchantiophyta)". Monographs in Systematic Botany. Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes. 98. Missouri Botanical Garden Press: 61–86.
  4. Yang, Liu; Yu Jia; Wei Wang; Chen Zhi-Duan; Davis, Christine E.; Qiu Yin-Long (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of two endemic genera from East Asia: Trichocoleopsis and Neotrichocolea (Hepaticae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 95 (3): 459–470. doi:10.3417/2006071. ISSN 0026-6493. S2CID 84011902.
  5. Crandall-Stotler, B.; R. E. Stotler; D. G. Long (2009). "Phylogeny and Classification of the Marchantiophyta". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 66: 155–198. doi:10.1017/s0960428609005393.
External links

Data related to Neotrichocoleaceae at Wikispecies