RT Journal Article
T1 The phenotypic features used for distinguishing species within the Cladonia furcata complex are highly homoplasious
A1 Pino Bodas, Raquel
A1 Burgaz Moreno, Ana Rosa
A1 Martín, María P.
A1 Ahti, Teuvo
A1 Stenroos, Soili
A1 Wedin, Mats
A1 Lumbsch, H. Thorsten
AB The Cladonia furcata complex treated here comprises C. farinacea, C. furcata, C. multiformis, C. scabriuscula, C. stereoclada, and C. subrangiformis. The well-known taxonomic complexity of this group is caused by wide phenotypic variation and high morphological similarity among the species, for which reason we investigated the distribution in the phylogeny of the phenotypic characters traditionally used to distinguish the species in this complex. A phylogenetic analysis of the C. furcata complex is presented here, based on three loci (ITS rDNA, IGS rDNA and RPB2), representing specimens from a broad geographical range (Europe, North America and New Zealand). The phylogenetic reconstructions were performed using Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian analyses. In addition, 14 features traditionally used for species delimitation within this complex were mapped onto the Bayesian phylogeny. All the species currently accepted, with the exception of C. stereoclada, turned out to be polyphyletic. Most of the phenotypic characters studied are highly homoplasious with the exception of the podetium type. The solid podetia represent a diagnostic character of C. stereoclada.
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 0024-2829, ESSN: 1096-1135
YR 2015
FD 2015-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23274
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23274
LA eng
NO Unión Europea. FP7
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Swedish Research Council
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 abr 2025