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Sister taxa at the top ten most imbalanced nodes of flowering-plant phylogeny |
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Less diverse clade |
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Clade name |
Geographical distribution |
Clade name |
Geographical distribution |
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| 1 |
Lamiales I (mints) |
Cosmopolitan |
Plocospermataceae |
Central America |
| 2 |
Poaceae (grasses) |
Cosmopolitan |
Ecdeiocoleaceae (tussocky cord rush) |
Australia |
| 3 |
Monocots |
Cosmopolitan |
Acoraceae (sweet flag) |
Old World and North America |
| 4 |
Asparagales (asparagus) |
Cosmopolitan |
Xeronemataceae |
New Zealand and New Caledonia |
| 5 |
Lamiales II (mints) |
Cosmopolitan |
Tetrachondraceae |
New Zealand and Patagonia |
| 6 |
Fabaceae (legumes) |
Cosmopolitan |
Surianaceae |
Pan subtropical to tropical |
| 7 |
Caryophyllales I (carnations) |
Cosmopolitan |
Asteropeiaceae and Physenaceae |
Madagascar |
| 8 |
Caryophyllales II (carnations) |
Cosmopolitan |
Stegnospermaceae |
North and Central America |
| 9 |
Ranunculales (buttercups) |
Cosmopolitan |
Eupteleaceae |
East Asia |
| 10 |
Cyperaceae and Juncaceae (sedges and rushes) |
Cosmopolitan |
Thurniaceae |
North and South America |
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The common clade name or an example of a representative species is given in brackets after the formal name. Most of the diverse clades refer to a subset of the group noted (for example, monocots refers to all monocots except Acoraceae); clades annotated I or II refer to different subsets of the same larger clade (for more details see [8]). | ||||
Graham and Cronk Genome Biology 2004 5:236 doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-8-236 |
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