PHYLOGENY, CLASSIFICATION, AND FRUIT EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES-RICH NEOTROPICAL BELLFLOWERS (CAMPANULACEAE: LOBELIOIDEAE)

摘要

Premise of the study: The species-rich Neotropical genera Centropogon, Burmeistera, and Siphocampylus represent more than half of the similar to 1200 species in the subfamily Lobelioideae (Campanulaceae). They exhibit remarkable morphological variation in floral morphology and habit. Limited taxon sampling and phylogenetic resolution, however, obscures our understanding of relationships between and within these genera and underscores our uncertainty of the systematic value of fruit type as a major diagnostic character.