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2Department of Systematic Botany, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden; 3National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, PO Box 1172 Blindern, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway; 4Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069 USA; 5Department of Botany, MRC-166, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 USA; and 6National Tropical Botanical Garden, 3530 Papalina Road, Kalaheo, Hawaii 96741 USA
Received for publication April 28, 2006. Accepted for publication November 23, 2006.
ABSTRACT
The Hawaiian endemic Silene are a small group of woody or semiwoody representatives from a large, predominantly herbaceous, species-rich genus. We here investigated the origin and number of introductions of the endemic Hawaiian Silene based on phylogenetic relationships inferred from DNA sequences from both the plastid (the rps16 intron) and the nuclear (ribosomal internal transcribed sequences, ITS, and intron 23 of the RPB2 gene) genomes. Silene antirrhina, a widespread weedy American annual, is strongly supported as sister to a monophyletic group consisting of the Hawaiian Silene, indicating a single colonization event. There are no obvious morphological similarities between S. antirrhina and any of the species of Hawaiian Silene. Our results suggest an American origin for the Hawaiian endemics because that would require only a single trans-ocean dispersal. Two of the Hawaiian endemics (S. struthioloides and S. hawaiiensis) that form a subclade in the analyses have evolved woodiness after introduction to the Hawaiian Islands. Our results contribute to other recent results based on molecular phylogenetics that emphasize the American continent as a source area for the Hawaiian flora and support a striking morphological radiation and evolution of woodiness from a single introduction to the archipelago.
Key Words: Caryophyllaceae • Hawaiian Silene • ITS • phylogeny • RPB2 • rps16 • Silene antirrhina • woodiness
Although islands have been forming over the Hawaiian hot spot for the past 85 million years (My) (Clague, 1996
), most colonization of the current high islands has occurred within the past 5 My because dispersal between islands was previously limited by an extended period when only small, low, widely spaced islands were formed (Price and Clague, 2002
). The oldest and westernmost of the main Hawaiian Islands is Kauai (ca. 5 My old). The island of Hawaii is the easternmost and youngest island, with an age of ca. 500 000 years (Carson and Clague, 1995
). The Hawaiian Islands are positioned in extreme isolation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They belong to the Hawaiian-Emperor volcanic chain that extends northward to Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands. There are no islands in the eastward direction between Hawaii and the American continents, so the closest islands are the Polynesian and Micronesian islands in the south and southwest.
There are 1030 native species of flowering plants on Hawaii (Wagner et al., 1990
, 2005a
). Because of the islands are isolated volcanic in origin, and have never been attached to the continental mainland, plant colonists could only have arrived by long-distance dispersal, followed by speciation in situ. Fosberg (1948)
hypothesized that there were 272 original immigrant seed plants, with most originating from the Indo-Pacific area (40%) or from America (mainly North America, excluding the northernmost arctic parts) (18%). Sakai et al. (1995)
updated (partly based on Wagner et al., 1990
) the number of introductions of seed plants to 291 original immigrants. In 45 genera, Silene being one of them, the species are suggested to be the result of more than one colonization. Price and Wagner (2004)
mentioned a further updated, slightly lower, number of 263 introductions, which excluded ca. 15 questionably indigenous species. A number of recent studies have used molecular phylogenies to infer the origin of Hawaiian angiosperms; a few examples summarized in Table 1 (for more examples, see Price and Wagner, 2004
).
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), dioecy (e.g., Negrutiu et al., 2001
), and polyploidy (e.g., Popp et al., 2005
). There are also a number of cultivated species and widespread weeds.
The genus Silene has been shown in previous molecular phylogenetic studies to consist of two major clades of approximately equal size, which are tentatively classified as Silene subgenus Silene and Silene subgenus Behen (Moench) Bunge (Oxelman et al., 1997
; Popp and Oxelman, 2004
). In the most recent taxonomic revision covering the entire genus, Silene is divided into 44 sections, without any rank above that (Chowdhuri, 1957
). This classification has been followed by most authors but needs to be revised because molecular studies have indicated that many of the sections of Chowdhuri are polyphyletic (e.g., Oxelman and Lidén, 1995
; Desfeux and Lejeune, 1996
; Oxelman et al., 1997
).
On the Hawaiian Islands, there are seven endemic species of Silene (Wagner et al., 1990
) that can be divided into two groups based on morphology and, in particular, growth form. Silene alexandri Hillebr., S. cryptopetala Hillebr., S. degeneri Sherff, S. lanceolata A. Gray, and S. perlmanii W. L. Wagner, Herbst, and Sohmer are subshrubs, with more or less lanceolate to oblanceolate leaves, that are at least a few millimeters wide and a few centimeters long. The flowers are white with notched petals. Within this group, S. cryptopetala is odd in having very small petals that lack a claw (Wagner et al., 1990
), an unusual condition in the genus. A second group consists of xeromorphic shrubs and comprises the two taxa S. struthioloides A. Gray and S. hawaiiensis Sherff. Members of the xeromorphic group have slender, subulate, and sometimes recurved leaves that are less than 1 mm wide. They have flowers that are greenish or yellowish white fading to maroon with deeply cleft petals, and they both have a prominent enlarged root. Wagner et al. (1990)
suggest that the two groups of native Hawaiian Silene are the result of two independent colonizations.
Previous classifications (e.g., Chowdhuri, 1957
) have implicitly suggested a Japanese origin for the Hawaiian Silene. Of the Hawaiian endemics, Chowdhuri (1957)
recognized S. alexandri, S. lanceolata, and S. struthioloides, which he placed in Silene sect. Paniculatae Boiss. subsect. Sclerophyllae Chowdhuri. He also included two Japanese Silene, S. japonica Rohrb. and S. tanakae Maxim, in the same subsection. The taxonomic standing of these two species is dubious, and their placing in subsection Sclerophyllae is questionable. Silene japonica is described from a single fragmentary specimen, and S. tanakae is described from a single specimen raised from seeds in the Botanical Garden in St. Petersburg. Silene japonica is described from a locality on the east side of Honshu, an area now with a dense human population. Silene tanakae is described from the Ryukyu Islands, between the Japanese main islands and Taiwan. It is mentioned in Flora of the Ryukyus (Hatusima, 1971
), but it is noted that the type specimen is the only known collection. Walker (1976)
says that its presence on the Ryukyus is dubious. Neither S. tanakae nor S. japonica are mentioned in Flora of Japan (Ohwi, 1965
).
In the present study, molecular phylogenies are used to examine the origin of Silene in Hawaii in terms of the number of independent colonization events that is, whether there have been two independent origins as suggested by Wagner et al. (1990)
or a single event as described for many Hawaiian plant and animal groups recently. We will also address the geographical origin of Silene on Hawaii and in particular investigate the theory, based on the classification of Chowdhuri (1957)
, of a Japanese origin for the Hawaiian Silene.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Selection of taxa for analysis
The Silene species from Hawaii are here represented by S. alexandri, S. lanceolata, S. perlmanii, S. struthioloides, and S. hawaiiensis. The first three represent one of the putative colonizations, whereas the last two represent the other putative colonization. Silene degeneri and S. cryptopetala are probably extinct, and very few herbarium sheets exist. We did not have access to any material of S. cryptopetala, and we failed to extract DNA from the little material we had from S. degeneri. We could therefore not include them in the present analysis. The Japanese species S. tanakae is included for the test of the classification of Chowdhuri, but S. japonica is not included because we have not been able to find any material. It is probably only known from the type material, which likely was destroyed during the World War II bombings of Berlin. The Hawaiian Silene belong to Silene subgenus Silene, and we have included, based on Oxelman and Lidén (1995)
, Desfeux and Lejeune (1996)
, and Oxelman et al. (1997
, 2001
, unpublished data), species representing different lineages from this subgenus and additional representatives from Silene subgenus Behen and more distant outgroups (Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr. and Viscaria vulgaris Bernh.). Materials used in this study are presented in the Appendix.
DNA regions
Three DNA regions were used for this study: two from the nuclear genome and one from the chloroplast genome. The chloroplast gene rps16 intron (Oxelman et al., 1997
) was used. Nuclear sequences included the internal transcribed spacer regions with the intervening 5.8S gene (ITS) from the nuclear ribosomal arrays and intron number 23 (as of the Arabidopsis gene; Larkin and Guilfoyle, 1993
) of the nuclear RPB2 gene. The latter is a region that has been successfully used in several previous studies in the tribe Sileneae (Popp and Oxelman, 2001
, 2004
; Popp et al., 2005
). Using low-copy regions is beneficial in that they are not affected by the different processes (reviewed by Alvarez and Wendel, 2003
) that can affect tandemly repeated regions such as the ribosomal cistrons. Low-copy genes like RPB2 have rarely been used in studies of Hawaiian plants; none of the studies presented in Table 1 use low-copy genes.
DNA extraction, amplification, cloning, and sequencing
Total genomic DNA was extracted from herbarium material using the method described by Oxelman et al. (1997)
. The DNA was purified after precipitation using the QIAquick PCR Purification Kit (QiaGen, Crawley, West Sussex, UK) protocol. For some extractions, the material was disintegrated using a Mini-Beadbeater (BioSpec Products, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA). The plant tissue was put in a tube with the lysis buffer and beads (2.5 mm zirconia/silica beads), and the Mini-Beadbeater was operated at 4800 rpm for 40 s. DNA from S. perlmanii was extracted using the DNEasy Plant Mini Extraction Kit (QiaGen, Valencia, California, USA) at the University of South Dakota.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was prepared in 25-µl reactions consisting of buffer (supplied with the enzyme), 0.2 mM of each dNTP, 1.5–2.5 mM MgCl2, 0.5 µM of each primer, 0.005% bovine serum albumin, and 0.025 U Taq polymerase (Advanced Biotechnologies, Epsom, Surrey, UK). For samples that were difficult to amplify, Q-solution (QiaGen, Crawley, West Sussex, UK) or 1% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was added. These reactions were run on an Eppendorf Mastercycler Gradient (Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany) with an initial denaturation at 95°C for 5–10 minutes followed by 34–40 cycles at 95°C for 30 s, at 55–58°C for 1 min, and at 72°C for 2–2.5 min. The cycling was terminated at 72°C for 10–15 min. Phusion High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase (FINNZYMES, Espoo, Finland) was used for some PCR reactions, which proved difficult to amplify with Taq polymerase. These reactions were prepared in 50-µl reactions consisting of buffer (supplied by the manufacturer), 0.2 mM of each dNTP, 0.4 mM of each primer, and 0.02 U Phusion polymerase and run with an initial denaturation at 98°C for 2.5 min followed by 34 cycles of 98°C for 15 s, 63–66°C for 25 s, and 72°C for 3 min. The cycling was terminated at 72°C for 10 min.
The PCR products were purified with either QIAquick PCR Purification Kit or with Multiscreen PCR (Millipore, Solna, Sweden) following the manufacturer's protocol. Primers used for PCR and sequencing are listed in Table 2. The ITS region for S. perlmanii was amplified and sequenced for both strands using primers LEU1 and ITS4 following the protocol detailed in Nepokroeff et al. (2003)
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The sequencing reactions were prepared using the DYEnamic ET Terminator Cycle Sequencing Premix Kit (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech/GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB, Uppsala, Sweden) following the protocol from the manufacturer, with the exception that the reaction volumes were set to 10 µl. Visualization was performed on a MegaBACE 1000 DNA Analysis System (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech/GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB, Uppsala, Sweden). Some reactions were prepared using the ABI PRISM BigDye Terminator Cycle Sequencing Kit (Applied Biosystem, Foster City, California, USA), and the samples were sent to the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) or the Rudbeck Laboratory (Sweden) and visualized on an ABI PRISM 377 Sequencer (Perkin-Elmer, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA).
Alignment and phylogenetic analyses
All sequences were edited using Sequencher 3.1.1 (Gene Codes Corp., Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) and aligned manually in Se-Al v2.0a11 (Rambaut, 1996
). Gaps were introduced and coded as separate binary characters manually following the "simple gap coding" of Simmons and Ochoterena (2000)
for those gaps with overlapping regions.
Parsimony analyses were performed with PAUP* version 4.0b10 (Swofford, 2003
). Heuristic searches employed 1000 random addition sequences and the TBR (tree-bisection-reconnection) branch-swapping algorithm, with MulTrees on. The analyses of the rps16 and RPB2 data sets created very large numbers of saved trees, so to reduce this number branches were allowed to collapse if it was possible for them to have zero length (amb-). Maximum parsimony bootstrap (MPB) analysis was carried out with 1000 replicates, four random addition sequences, TBR branch-swapping algorithm, with MulTrees off.
RESULTS
The separate analyses of the three regions resulted in trees with largely congruent topologies, at least for clades closely related to the Hawaiian clade (see Figs. 1–3). The rps16 tree and the RPB2 tree have congruent patterns for the clades closely related to the Hawaiian clade, and the ITS tree is slightly conflicting but with very low support (MPB < 50%). Therefore, we performed an analysis on the combined data set consisting of the sequences from all three regions (Fig. 4). Table 3 summarizes the characteristics of the matrices and the resulting trees. We arbitrarily named the clades A through G in the following text and assigned membership of the individual sequences from the combined data tree (Fig. 4). The geographic distributions of the species included in the seven clades are presented in Table 4.
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Clades B and C
Clade B comprises a few species from the western Mediterranean area, and clade C consists of species from the Middle East. These two clades together (i.e., clade BC) are strongly supported as sister to the Hawaiian endemics and S. antirrhina.
The association between clades A, B, and C is seen in the rps16 and the RPB2 trees as well, although with less support (MPB 72–87%) and less resolution within the clade in the latter case. In the ITS tree, clade A is sister to a much more inclusive clade, but the support here is very low (MPB < 50%). This more inclusive clade includes, besides clade A and B, clades D and E, presented next.
Clade D
Clade D is a very diverse clade comprising perennial species from the Arctic, Europe, and northern Asia, the Mediterranean, and northern, central, and/or eastern Asia and probably represents a large number of species, most of which were classified by Chowdhuri in the sections Paniculatae Boiss., Siphonomorpha Otth, Tataricae Chowdhuri, Otites Otth, Macranthae (Rohrb.) Chowdhuri, and Graminifoliae Chowdhuri. The support for clade D is very low in the combined, ITS and rps16 trees (MPB < 56%). Clade D is polyphyletic in the RPB2 tree, and parts of it are unresolved within a moderately supported clade (MPB 85%) together with the clade comprised of clades A, B, C and E. The support for clade ABCDE comes mainly from two deletions: one 13 bp long and the other 14 bp long. If the two characters coded for these are removed from the matrix, the MPB support for the clade becomes <50%. The Japanese S. tanakae is not closely related to the Hawaiian Silene but is found within clade D, as sister to S. fortunei, in a moderately supported clade (MPB 93%) including two other Far East species, S. stenophylla and S. macrostyla.
Clades E and F
Both these clades consist of species from the Mediterranean area; clade E is from the western part and clade F from the eastern part. They are not further discussed here because they are not resolved as close to the Hawaiian endemics or to S. tanakae. Eggens and Oxelman (unpublished data) have examined the phylogenetic relationships of these groups in detail.
Clade G
This clade comprises a geographically diverse group, with species from Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Himalayan region, and most of the eastern parts of Asia, extending into the northwest part of North America. The group has not previously been recognized but receives strong support in all trees except the RPB2 tree, where it receives low support. It includes the odd S. ampullata, a species that has fruits that are one-seeded nuts rather than the many-seeded capsules that all other Silene species have.
Silene bergiana, that is here sister to the other representatives of Silene subgenus Silene, is the only included representative of a group ("Cincinnosilene") previously recognized by Oxelman and Lidén (1995)
and Oxelman et al. (1997)
.
DISCUSSION
Our phylogenetic analyses suggest that the endemic Hawaiian Silene species are the result of a single colonization of the Hawaiian Islands, and the hypothesis of two independent introductions put forward by Wagner et al. (1990)
can be rejected. The two lineages are instead the result of a morphological radiation. A number of Hawaiian plant and animal groups formerly believed to have resulted from multiple introductions (Fosberg, 1948
) have been shown to have had a single origin e.g., Hawaiian species of Psychotria (Rubiaceae; Nepokroeff et al., 2003
), Hawaiian species of Peperomia (Piperaceae; Cross and Motley, 2000
) and Labordia (Loganiaceae; Motley and Cross, 1999
), but see also Howarth et al. (2003)
, showing that Scaevola has colonized the Hawaiian Islands three separate times. For ferns, multiple introductions have been shown for Dryopteris by Geiger and Ranker (2005)
.
Within the Hawaiian lineage, the position of S. lanceolata is uncertain, with only weak support as sister to the S. perlmanii/S. alexandri clade. Silene lanceolata is the most widespread of the endemic Hawaiian Silene. It occurs (or has occurred in the past) on almost all of the main Hawaiian Islands, including the oldest one, Kauai. Almost all other species are found on just a single island. The close relationship between S. struthioloides and S. hawaiiensis is consistent with their morphological similarity, differing in minor characters such as the degree of hairiness and rigidity of the leaves. They have also been shown to be close genetically by Westerbergh and Saura (1994)
. Silene perlmanii and S. alexandri are also similar morphologically, differing in the degree of hairiness on the calyx and pedicels and in pedicel length.
There is no obvious morphological evidence for the close relationship between the American species S. antirrhina and the Hawaiian Silene (Fig. 4). Silene antirrhina is a weedy, diploid, annual species that is distributed throughout North and South America. It is herbaceous, erect, and fairly large (up to 50 cm) and grows from a taproot. The flowers are inconspicuous, with petals almost or totally included within the calyx. Silene antirrhina is not closely related to other native American Silene, most of which are polyploid and belong to two clades in Silene subgenus Behen (cf. Fig. 4; Oxelman and Lidén, 1995
; Oxelman et al., 1997
; Popp and Oxelman, 2004
, in press
). Silene antirrhina has previously been classified together with some of the Mediterranean Silene species in Silene section Behenantha Otth (Chowdhuri, 1957
), a section that has been shown to be polyphyletic (Oxelman et al., 1997
). The clade containing S. antirrhina, and the Hawaiian Silene species is strongly supported as sister (MPB 99%, Fig. 4) to a clade comprised of species from the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
The relationship between the Hawaiian Silene and S. antirrhina suggests the possibility of an American origin for the Hawaiian endemics. A number of recent studies have shown an American origin for Hawaiian plant groups; some of these studies are mentioned in Table 1. Several of these were noted as having an "obscure" origin by Fosberg (1948)
, suggesting that he might have underestimated the American continents as a source area for Hawaiian immigrants. Fosberg suggested examples with an American origin that have been shown to have their source area elsewhere, e.g., Psychotria and Hesperomannia (see Table 1), but there are fewer of these. It should be noted that the clade with S. antirrhina and the Hawaiian Silene is sister to the clade with the Mediterranean and Middle East species (clades B and C in Figs. 1–4) but that the closest relative to the combined clade (clades A, B, and C together) cannot be inferred with confidence from these phylogenies. Clade D has a large Eurasian geographical distribution, and the entire subgenus Silene has an Old World distribution except for the S. antirrhina/Hawaiian Silene clade. One easily assumes, given the combined tree presented here, that the ancestor of S. antirrhina and the Hawaiian endemics originated in the Mediterranean area and was dispersed across the Atlantic Ocean to the American continents, and then the ancestor of the Hawaiian endemics was dispersed from the American continents to the Hawaiian Islands. However, what can be inferred from the analyses is that the ancestor of the Hawaiian Silene/S. antirrhina clade probably originated in the Old World given that clade A is nested within a clade with non-American distribution (i.e., Silene subgenus Silene). Parsimony optimizations of the ancestral area to clade A and the more inclusive ABC clade are ambiguous. It is possible that the ancestor of the endemic Hawaiian Silene arrived to the Hawaiian Islands from an unknown source area and that a representative from this lineage was dispersed to the American continents. This scenario does, however, require two long-distance dispersals over the Pacific Ocean and can therefore be considered as a less parsimonious explanation.
The Japanese S. tanakae is, in the combined analysis (Fig. 4), a member of a clade that includes other species from East Asia. The classification of Chowdhuri (1957)
, which includes S. tanakae in the same subsection as the Hawaiian endemic Silene, is not congruent with the phylogenetic patterns found here. We do not know if this is true for S. japonica as well because we have not been able to see any type material for this species, which probably is the only existing material. Williams (1896)
placed S. japonica in Silene series Brachypodae Boiss., whereas S. tanakae was placed in Silene series Italicae Rohrb., the latter together with, e.g., S. fortunei and several, but not all, of the Hawaiian Silene. He considered the placement of S. japonica as "doubtful and tentative" and suggested that S. japonica is highly distinct from other species in the series Brachypodae. Silene japonica is described as having leathery leaves and purple flowers, but is otherwise very generally described.
The phylogenetic position of the woody or semiwoody Hawaiian Silene as sister to the annual herbaceous species S. antirrhina and the S. antirrhina/Hawaiian Silene clade as sister to the annual and herbaceous Middle East and Mediterranean Silene clade is consistent with the evolution of the perennial, woody habit after dispersal to the Hawaiian Islands. Many species of plants that are typically herbaceous on the mainland have evolved woodiness and arborescence on islands (Carlquist, 1974
). A number of examples of this growth form evolution have been documented for Hawaiian plants, e.g., the silverswords (Baldwin et al., 1991
), Schiedea (Wagner et al., 1995
, 2005b
), the lobelioids (Givnish et al., 1995
), the violets (Ballard and Sytsma, 2000
), and the mints (Lindqvist and Albert, 2002
); see also Price and Wagner (2004)
for discussion and more examples. The evolution of woodiness has also been seen on other oceanic islands, e.g., Macaronesia, where it has been shown for genera such as Sonchus (Kim et al., 1996
), Echium (Böhle et al., 1996
), and Convolvulus (Carine et al., 2004
). However, the endemic Silene species from the Canary Islands are woody-based perennials and seem to have originated from a group of woody-based perennials (M. Lundberg et al., Uppsala University, unpublished manuscript).
The evolution of woody habit in insular plants likely has complex underpinnings, but has been proposed as the result of the ecological release of herbaceous, mainland colonists to fill the large woody plant niche (Carlquist, 1974
). Givnish (1998)
suggested that the evolution of woodiness has involved the initial invasion of open or partially open habitats followed by increased specialization and adaptation for more competitive environments. Birds are the most likely dispersal agents to distant oceanic islands, at least for plants of inland habitats with relatively large seeds, with seeds from fleshy fruits transported inside the animal and other seeds stuck on their feathers or skin or in mud on their feet. Birds are likely to visit open or partially open habitats and to carry with them seeds from similar environments on the mainland, thereby establishing the colonizer in a suitable environment (Givnish, 1998
).
Seeds of Silene have no adaptations for long-distance dispersal. They have no wings of reasonable size (i.e., that might aid in flying) and the fruit is a dry capsule, but the seeds can probably stick to feathers or to mud on feet. It is possible that the ancestor of the Hawaiian Silene and S. antirrhina was a weedy herbaceous annual, much like S. antirrhina, and that it was dispersed to the Hawaiian Islands on birds visiting open habitats.
Conclusions
The probable American origin of the Hawaiian Silene lineage is yet another example of the importance of the American continents as a source area for Hawaiian plant groups and the significance of birds as dispersal agents. But even though the American origin seems like the most likely explanation, one must keep in mind the difficulties, like the ones seen here, in unambiguously inferring the direction of dispersal.
Hawaiian Silene is yet another instance in which a morphologically heterogeneous group turns out to be descended from a single common introduction. We show, in spite of the little molecular differentiation of the Hawaiian Silene and its continental sister-taxon, morphological radiation has resulted in two distinct morphological groups and that the woody habit has been derived in situ in Hawaii from herbaceous ancestors.
APPENDIX
Material used for phylogenetic analyses. Herbarium abbreviations according to Holmgren et al. (1990)
. Missing data are indicated with a —.
Taxon—Voucher; GenBank accession nos.: ITS; rps16; RPB2.
Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr.—Bengt Oxelman 2278 GB; X86891; Z83165.1; —. Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr.—Magnus Popp 1050 UPS; —; —; AJ634069.1. Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq.—Bengt Oxelman 2243 GB; X86860; Z83189.1; —. Silene alexandri Hillebr.—Wood 6036 US; EF060222; EF061382; EF061344. Silene ampullata Boiss.—Al-Dabbagh and Jasim 48874 LE; EF060223; —; EF061345. Silene antirrhina L.—M. A. Wincent and T. G. Lammers 3137 GB; DQ908631; Z83193; EF061318. Silene arenosa K. Koch—Grossheim 24.vii.1919 B; EF060203; EF061363; EF061323. Silene austroiranica Rech. f., Aell. & Esfand—Rechinger et al. 3261 B; EF060204; EF061364; EF061324. Silene baccifera (L.) Roth—Bengt Oxelman 2287 GB; X86889; Z83169.1; AJ296139.1. Silene bergiana Lindman—Holmdahl 1182 GB; X86835; Z83191; AJ634076.1. Silene brevistaminea Gilliin—Hedge and Wendelbo W 9534 GB; EF060235; EF061395; —. Silene bupleuroides L.—Bengt Oxelman 2266 GB; X86864; —; —. Silene bupleuroides L.—Bengt Oxelman 2392 UPS; —; EF061360; EF061319. Silene cappadocica Boiss. & Heldr.—Wendelbo and Assadi 28000 GB; EF060224; EF061383; EF061346. Silene cariensis Boiss.—Bengt Oxelman 1681 GB; EF060205; EF061365; EF061325. Silene conica L.—Bengt Oxelman 1944 GB; X86832; Z83170.1; —. Silene conica L.—Bengt Oxelman 1898 GB; —; —; AJ634077.1. Silene corinthiaca Boiss. & Heldr.—Bengt Oxelman 1934 GB; EF060206; EF061366; EF061326. Silene cuatrecasasii Pau & Font Quer—OPTIMA ITER V 1553 RNG; EF060207; EF061367; EF061327. Silene echinosperma Boiss. & Heldr.—Bengt Oxelman 2225 GB; X86845.1; Z83196; EF061330. Silene echinospermoides Huber-Mor.—Bengt Oxelman 2202 GB; EF060208; EF061368; EF061328/EF061329. Silene exsudans Boiss. & Heldr.—Bengt Oxelman 1660 GB; EF060209; EF061369; EF061331. Silene falcata Sibth. & Sm.—Bengt Oxelman 2373 UPS; EF060225; EF061384; EF061347. Silene fortunei Vis.—Zheng-Yu Li 20954 PE; EF060226; —; —. Silene fortunei Vis.—Harry Smith 6631 UPS; —; EF061385; EF061348. Silene fruticosa L.—Bengt Oxelman 934 GB; X86865; Z83188.1; AJ634078.1. Silene hawaiiensis Sherff.—Degener, Greenwell and Murashige 19828 GB; EF060218; EF061378; EF061340. Silene inaperta L.—Bengt Oxelman 1724 GB; EF060210; EF061370; EF061332. Silene lanceolata A. Gray—Perlman and Castilio 14329 US; EF060221; EF061381; EF061343. Silene leyseroides Boiss.—Kramer 75-156 BSB; EF060211; EF061371; EF061333. Silene linearis Decne—M. Bierkamp and P. Zinth 177 BSB; EF060212; EF061372; EF061334. Silene longipetala Vent.—Grey-Wilson and Hewer 899 GB; EF060232; EF061392; —. Silene macrostyla Maxim.—Smith 6883 UPS; EF060227; EF061386; EF061349. Silene marschallii C. A. Mey.—Wendelbo and Assadi 27674 GB; EF060228; EF061387; EF061350. Silene martyi Emb. et Maire—F. Jacquemoud and D. Jeanmonod MAR1168 G; EF060213; EF061373; EF061335. Silene mentagensis Coss.—Jahandiez 329 LD; EF060236; EF061396; EF061358. Silene moorcroftiana Wall. ex Bentham—B. Dickoré 17783 GOET; EF060229; EF061388; EF061351. Silene muscipula L.—Bengt Oxelman 1780 GB; EF060201; Z83197.1; EF061320. Silene nana Kar. et Kir.—Kereverzova and Mekeda 1976.V.5 LECB; EF060217; EF061377; EF061339. Silene nemoralis Waldst. & Kit.—Bengt Oxelman 2259 GB; EF060230; EF061389; EF061352. Silene nutans L.——; U30962/U30989; —; —. Silene nutans L.—Magnus Popp 1045 UPS; —; EF061361; EF061321. Silene otites (L.) Wibel—Anja Rautenberg 83 UPS; EF060233; EF061393; EF061356. Silene perlmanii W. L.Wagner, D. R. Herbst & Sohmer—Perlman & Obata 5401 BISH; EF060220; EF061380; EF061342. Silene pinetorum Boiss. & Heldr.—Greuter S4408 B; EF060214; EF061374; EF061336. Silene portensis L.—Sanchez Garcia 17.6.1974 C; EF060237; EF061397; EF061359. Silene reinwardtii Roth—Bengt Oxelman 2391 UPS; EF060215; EF061375; EF061337. Silene repens Patrin—Egger 431 WTU; DQ908662; DQ908842; —. Silene repens Patrin—Argus 1068 UPS; —; —; DQ908755. Silene reticulata Desf.—Davis 53457 BM; EF060216; Ef061376; EF061338. Silene saxifraga L.—Anja Rautenberg 213 UPS; EF060234; EF061394; EF061357. Silene schafta S. G. Gmel. ex Hohen.—Bengt Oxelman 2264 GB; X86852; Z83194.2; —. Silene schafta S. G. Gmel. ex Hohen.—Magnus Popp 1053 UPS; —; —; AJ634088.1. Silene sedoides Poir.—Magnus Popp 1011 UPS; AJ299814; AJ294962.1; AJ296106.1. Silene stenophylla Ledeb.—Molau and Raszhivin 4092 GB; X86872.2; —; EF061353. Silene struthioloides A. Gray—Henrickson 3854 US; EF060219; EF061379; EF061341. Silene subcretacea F. N. Williams—Hu and Chuang 6 UPS; EF060231; EF061390; EF061354. Silene tanakae Maxim.—Maxim. 24.IX.1887 LE; —; EF061391; EF061355. Silene ungeri Fenzl—Bengt Oxelman and Lars Tollsten 1431 GB; EF060202; EF061362; EF061322. Silene uniflora Roth—Bengt Oxelman 2197 GB; X86849; Z83173.1; DQ908807. Viscaria vulgaris Röhl.—Magnus Popp 1051 UPS; AJ629911; AJ629912; AJ634090.1
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1 The authors thank the curator of LE and G. Lazkov for use of leaf material of the type of S. tanakae; S. Weller at University of California–Irvine for providing the S. perlmanii material; and the herbaria staff at B, BISH, BM, BSB, C, G, GB, GOET, LD, LE, LECB, PE, RNG, UPS, US, W, and WTU for providing plant material. The authors are indebted to N. Heidari, R. Dufva, and I. Hallin for laboratory assistance and to J. Lundberg for help with translating Japanese text. Dr. R. Vogt at the Botanical Museum Berlin–Dalhem (B) kindly checked for the existence of any possible S. japonica type specimen. This study was supported by a grant to B.O. from The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS). 
7 Author for correspondence (frida.eggens{at}ebc.uu.se
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