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(American Journal of Botany. 2003;90:310-320.)
© 2003 Botanical Society of America, Inc.

Systematics

Phylogenetic relationships in Gleditsia (Leguminosae) based on ITS sequences1

Andrew Schnabel2,4, Patrick E. McDonel5 and Jonathan F. Wendel3

2Department of Biological Sciences, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana 46634 USA; 3Department of Botany, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA

We used nucleotide sequences from the internal transcribed spacers and 5.8S gene of nuclear ribosomal DNA to test competing phylogenetic and biogeographic hypotheses in Gleditsia. Eleven of 13 Gleditsia species were sampled, along with two species of its sister genus, Gymnocladus. Analyses of ITS data and of a combined data set that included sequences of ITS and two chloroplast genes supported several conclusions that were interpreted in light of fossil data and current legume phylogeny. Gleditsia and Gymnocladus appear to have originated in eastern Asia during the Eocene. Eastern North American species of both genera most likely evolved from ancestors that migrated across the Bering land bridge, but the eastern Asian/eastern North American disjunction appears to be much older in Gymnocladus than in Gleditsia. Gleditsia amorphoides, from temperate South America, is sister to the rest of the genus, suggesting early long-distance dispersal from Asia. The remainder of Gleditsia is divided into three unresolved clades, possibly indicating a split early in the evolution of the genus. Two of those clades contain only Asian species, and one contains Asian and North American species. The North American species, Gleditsia triacanthos and Gleditsia aquatica, are polymorphic and paraphyletic with respect to their ITS and cpDNA sequences, which suggests recent diversification.

Key Words: biogeography • Gleditsia • Gymnocladus • internal transcribed spacer • Leguminosae • molecular phylogeny • ribosomal DNA






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