New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
The relationships of Microsorum
(Polypodiaceae) species occurring in New Zealand
Harald Schneider
Hans-Peter Kreier
Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences
Georg-August University Göttingen
Untere Karspüle 2, 37083 Göttingen, Germany
hschneid3@gwdg.de
Leon R. Perrie
Patrick J. Brownsey
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
PO Box 467
Wellington, New Zealand
Abstract Relationships
of the three species of Microsorum occurring in
New Zealand, M. novae-zealandiae, M.
pustulatum, and M. scandens, were
explored using evidence from four chloroplast genomic markers: rbcL,
rps4, rps4–trnS
intergenic spacer, and trnL–F
intergenic spacer. All three species were nested in a
strongly supported lecanopteroid clade together with the ant-fern genus
Lecanopteris and several species accepted as
belonging to the polyphyletic genus Microsorum. M.
scandens is sister to M. varians from
New Caledonia, and in turn both are sister to M. linguiforme.
M. novae-zealandiae and M. pustulatum
form a clade together with the New Caledonian endemic M.
viellardii. Support from morphological features is discussed,
as is the possibility of a diversification of the lecanopteroids in
Eastern Malesia and/or adjacent areas to the south after the collision
of Australia and south-east Asia.
Keywords chloroplast
markers; lecanopteroids; Malesia; Microsorum; New
Zealand; phylogeny
B05048; Received 17 October 2005; accepted 28 February 2006;
Online publication date 18 April 2006
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2006, Vol. 44:
121–127
0028–825X/06/4402–0121 © The
Royal Society of New Zealand 2006
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