ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Usnea nipparensis and U. sinensis form a ‘species pair ’
presuming morphological, chemical and molecular phylogenetic data
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Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1
Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0005, Japan
Online publication date: 2020-12-29
Publication date: 2020-12-29
Plant and Fungal Systematics 2020; 65(2): 265-271
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Phylogenetic relationships between Usnea nipparensis and U. sinensis, caperatic acid containing Usnea species, were examined based on ITS rDNA, and the phylogenetic position of U. nipparensis was inferred based on multi-locus gene analysis using ITS rDNA,
nuLSU, and MCM7. Although U. nipparensis and U. sinensis have a sorediate and an
esorediate shrubby thallus, respectively, and in general look quite different, other detailed
morphological and chemical features are similar. Analysis of the ITS rDNA sequences
suggests their close relationship, but also confirms the independence of both species, and
that they most likely form a ‘species pair’ based on morphological, chemical and molecular
phylogenetic data. Phylogenetic trees based on both multi-locus gene and ITS rDNA alone
strongly support that U. nipparensis and U. angulata belong to the same clade.
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