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Phylogeny of Schisandraceae based on morphological data: evidence from modern plants and the fossil record

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Schisandraceae are traditionally subdivided in two genera, Schisandra and Kadsura, based on differences in the organisation of the floral receptacle, the carpels, and the presence or absence of a ``pseudostigma''. Recently, phylogenetic analyses utilizing ITS sequence data and morphological data resulted in incongruent tree topologies, with the morphological trees suggesting monophyly of the two genera, whereas ITS trees did not resolve Schisandra and Kadsura as monophyletic clades. In the present paper we study seed morphology and leaf epidermal features of 22 species of Schisandraceae in order to provide additional data for a morphological data matrix. Seed morphological characters are highly homoplastic and do not yield further evidence for monophyly of the two genera. Instead, a number of characters appear to support sister group relationships between taxa within the genera, such as, for instance, for K. coccinea and K. scandens, both of which have large seeds along with a multi-layered mesotesta. Considering leaf epidermal characteristics, species of Kadsura were found to be consistently amphistomatic, whereas species of Schisandra are always hypostomatic. Phylogenetic analysis using the extended data matrix resulted in weakly supported Kadsura and Schisandra clades with five and four synapomorphies indicating monophyly of Kadsura and Schisandra, respectively. Fossils ascribed to Schisandraceae date back to the Late Cretaceous. These are tri-and hexacolpate pollen types displaying a combination of features found in modern Schisandraceae and partly also in Illiciaceae. Leaf remains from this period are poorly preserved and difficult to ascribe to Schisandraceae because of the lack of synapomorphies for the family. In the Early Cainozoic, leaf and seed remains from North America and Europe unambiguously belong to the family. Seeds from the Eocene of North America show some similarities to the modern Schisandra glabra from North America, while fossils from Europe show more similarities to modern Asian species.

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  1. Department of Palaeobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Department of Phanerogamic Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden

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  3. Department of Systematic Botany, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Uppsala University, Norbyv. 18D, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden

    I. -C. Oh

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Denk, T., Oh, I.C. Phylogeny of Schisandraceae based on morphological data: evidence from modern plants and the fossil record. Plant Syst. Evol. 256, 113–145 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-005-0327-3

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