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Origin and relationships of the tarweed–silversword lineage (Compositae–Madiinae)¹

⁰ Jepson Herbarium and Department of Integrative Biology, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Building #2465, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-2465 USA

Based on results from phylogenetic analyses of nuclear 18S–26S rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region sequences, we suggest that the monophyletic tarweed and silversword subtribe (Madiinae) is phylogenetically nested among epaleate, x = 19 species of helenioid Heliantheae. Strong bootstrap support (100%) was obtained for a sister-group relationship between Madiinae and Arnica (including Mallotopus and Whitneya) in an analysis including representatives of recognized genera in a principally Californian clade (Madieae sensu Baldwin) identified from a phylogenetic investigation of Heliantheae s.l. (sensu lato) and Eupatorieae. In all minimum-length trees, the robust lineage comprising Madiinae and Arnica (x = 19) is part of a larger clade that also comprises Eatonella s.s. (sensu stricto), Hulsea, and Venegasia, all with x = 19. The phylogenetic position of Madiinae within a group of genera based uniformly on x = 19 leads us to conclude that the modal numbers of n = 7 and n = 8 (and other numbers, as low as n = 4) in Madiinae are the results of extreme dysploidy. Among the x = 19 "arnicoid" taxa, the near-universal characteristics of perenniality (except in the monotypic Eatonella s.s. and a minority of hulseas) and montane or high-latitudinal occurrence (except in the monotypic Venegasia) lead us to suggest that the most recent common ancestor of the tarweeds (a principally annual group of seasonally dry, low-elevation habitats) was probably a montane, herbaceous perennial resembling the unusual subalpine and alpine tarweeds constituting Raillardella s.s. (x = 17), an arnica-like genus. In Madiinae, Raillardella s.s. may be plesiomorphic in habit, capitular and ecological characteristics, and high base chromosome number. Shifts to an annual habit and to low chromosome numbers in Madiinae have been followed by subsequent episodes of polyploidy and descending dysploidy. We conclude that genome evolution in Madiinae has been marked by wide swings in chromosome number that confuse identification of diploids and polyploids.

Key Words: Arnica • Asteraceae • chromosome evolution • Compositae • dysploidy • Heliantheae • ITS • Madiinae • phylogeny

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