Download PDF
Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2006; 8(1): 93-102
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-873060
Research Paper

Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart KG · New York

Phylogeny of the Genus Peperomia (Piperaceae) Inferred from the trnK/matK Region (cpDNA)

S. Wanke1 , M.-S. Samain2 , L. Vanderschaeve2 , G. Mathieu2 , P. Goetghebeur2 , C. Neinhuis1
  • 1Institut für Botanik, Plant Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics Group, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
  • 2Department of Biology, Research Group Spermatophytes, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Further Information

Publication History

Received: June 13, 2005

Accepted: October 13, 2005

Publication Date:
25 January 2006 (online)

   Permissions and Reprints

Abstract

The genus Peperomia is one of the largest genera of basal angiosperms, comprising about 1500 - 1700 pantropically distributed species. The currently accepted infrageneric classification divides Peperomia into nine subgenera and seven sections. This classification is based on some 200 species, primarily using fruit morphology. The monophyly of these infrageneric taxa has never been tested and molecular phylogenetic studies of a representative sampling within Peperomia do not exist. This paper provides the first molecular phylogeny for the genus Peperomia. Monophyletic clades within Peperomia are identified and previously used morphological characters are critically reviewed. We show that the importance of some morphological characters has been overestimated and that some of these characters presumably have evolved several times independently. Only one previously described subgenus has been confirmed to be monophyletic.

Key words

Peperomia - phylogeny - trnK intron - matK - Bayesian inference - giant genera.

References

  • 1 Airy-Shaw H.. Diagnoses of new families, new names etc. for the seventh edition of Willis' Dictionary.  Kew Bulletin. (1966);  18 249-273
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 2 Airy-Shaw H.. Willis' Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns (8th edition). Cambridge; Cambridge University Press (1987)
    Google Scholar
  • 3 APG1 . An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants.  Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. (1998);  85 531-553
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 4 APG2 . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogey Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II.  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. (2003);  141 399-436
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 5 Azuma H., Thien L. B., Kawano S.. Molecular phylogeny of Magnolia (Magnoliaceae) inferred from cDNA sequences and evolutionary divergence of floral scents.  Journal of Plant Research. (1999);  112 291-306
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 6 Bornstein A. J.. The Piperaceae in the southeastern United States.  Journal Arnold Arboretum. (1991);  (Suppl. 1) 349-366
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 7 Borsch T., Hilu K. W., Quandt D., Wilde V., Neinhuis C., Barthlott W.. Noncoding plastid trnT-trnF sequences reveal a well resolved phylogeny of Basal Angiosperms.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology. (2003);  16 558-576
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 8 Borsch T., Löhne C., Müller K., Hilu KW., Wanke S., Worberg A., Barthlott W., Neinhuis C., Quandt D.. Towards understanding basal angiosperm diversification: recent insights using rapidly evolving genomic regions.  Nora Acta Leopoldina. (2005);  342 85-110
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 9 Bradley U.. Biogeography and speciation of the genus Peperomia Ruiz and Pavón in Eastern Polynesia. PhD thesis, University of Dublin, Trinity College. (2002)
    Google Scholar
  • 10 Brummit R.. Vascular Plants, Families and Genera. Oxford; Clarendon Press (1992)
    Google Scholar
  • 11 Burger W.. Flora Costaricensis (family 41 Piperaceae).  Fieldiana Botany. (1971);  35 5-79
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 12 Burger W.. The Piperales and the monocots - alternate hypothesis for the origin of monocotyledonous flowers.  The Botanical Review. (1977);  43 345-393
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 13 Dahlstedt H.. Studien über süd- und central-amerikanische Peperomien mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der brasilianischen Sippen. Stockholm: Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps - Akademiens handlingar 33. (1900)
    Google Scholar
  • 14 de Candolle C.. Piperacearum clavis analytica.  Candollea. (1923);  1 286-415
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 16 Henschen S. E.. Études sur le Genre Peperomia Comprenant les Espéces de Caldas, Brésil, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Nova acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. (1873)
    Google Scholar
  • 17 Heywood V.. Flowering Plants of the World. New York; Mayflower Books, Inc (1978)
    Google Scholar
  • 18 Hill A. W.. A revision of the geophilous species of Peperomia with some additional notes on their morphology and seedling structure.  Annals of Botany. (1907);  21 141-160
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 19 Hilu K. W., Borsch T., Müller K., Soltis D. E., Soltis P. S., Savolainen V., Chase M. W., Powell M. P., Alice L. A., Evans R., Sauquet H., Neinhuis C., Slotta T. A. B., Rohwer J. G., Campbell C. S., Chatrou L. W.. Angiosperm phylogeny based on matK sequence information.  American Journal of Botany. (2003);  90 1758-1776
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 20 Hilu K. W., Liang H.. The matK gene: sequence variation and application in plant systematics.  American Journal of Botany. (1997);  87 830-839
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 21 Huelsenbeck J. P., Larget B., Miller R. E., Ronquist F.. Potential applications and pitfalls of Bayesian inference of phylogeny.  Systematic Biology. (2002);  51 673-688
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 22 Huelsenbeck J. P., Ronquist F., Nielsen R., Bollback J. P.. Bayesian inference of phylogeny and its impact on evolutionary biology.  Science. (2001);  294 2310-2314
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 23 Jaramillo M. A., Manos P. S., Zimmer E. A.. Phylogenetic relationships of the perianthless Piperales: reconstructing the evolution of floral development.  International Journal of Plant Sciences. (2004);  165 403-416
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 24 Kelchner S. A.. Group II introns as phylogenetic tool: structure, function, and evolutionary constraints.  American Journal of Botany. (2002);  89 1651-1669
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 25 Liang H., Hilu K. W.. Application of the matK gene sequences to grass systematics.  Canadian Journal of Botany. (1996);  74 125-134
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 26 Löhne C., Borsch T.. Molecular evolution and phylogenetic utility of the petD group II intron: a case study in basal angiosperms.  Molecular Biology and Evolution. (2005);  22 317-332
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 27 Mathew P. J., Mathew P. M.. Pollen morphology of some members of Pipereaceae and its bearing on the systematics and phylogeny of the family.  Rheedea. (2001);  11 65-78
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 28 Miquel F. A. W.. Systema Piperacearum. Kramers, H. A., ed. Rotterdam; (1843): 64-199
  • 29 Müller K.. PRAP - computation of Bremer support for large data sets.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. (2004);  31 780-782
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 30 Müller K.. SeqState - primer design and sequence statistics for phylogenetic DNA data sets.  Applied Bioinformatics. (2005);  4 65-69
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 31 Müller K., Borsch T.. Phylogenetics of Utricularia (Lentibulariceae) and molecular evolution of the trnK intron in a lineage with high substitutional rates.  Plant Systematics and Evolution. (2005);  250 39-67
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 32 Müller K., Borsch T., Legendre L., Porembski S., Theisen I., Barthlott W.. Evolution of Carnivory in Lentibulariaceae and the Lamiales.  Plant Biology. (2004);  6 477-490
    Article in Thieme ConnectPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 33 Müller J., Müller K.. TreeGraph: automated drawing of complex tree figures using an extensible tree description format.  Molecular Ecology Notes. (2004);  4 786-788
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 34 Müller J., Quandt D., Neinhuis C.. PhyDe - Phylogenetic Data Editor. Programm distributed by the author. (2005)
    Google Scholar
  • 35 Neinhuis C., Wanke S., Hilu K. W., Müller K., Borsch T.. Phylogeny of Aristolochiaceae based on parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian analyses of trnL-trnF sequences.  Plant Systematics and Evolution. (2004);  250 7-26
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 36 Neuhaus H., Link G.. The chloroplast tRNA Lys (UUU) gene from mustard (Sinapis alba) contains a class II intron potentially coding for a maturase related polypeptide.  Current Genetics. (1987);  11 251-257
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 37 Nixon K. C.. The parsimony ratchet, a new method for rapid parsimony analysis.  Cladistics. (1999);  15 407-414
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 38 Novak F.. System angiosperm.  Preslia. (1954);  26 337-364
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 39 Olmstead R. G., Palmer J.. Chloroplast DNA systematics: a review of methods and data analysis.  American Journal of Botany. (1994);  81 1205-1224
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 40 Posada D., Crandall A.. Modeltest: testing the model of DNA substitution.  Bioinformatics. (1998);  14 817-818
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 41 Rodriguez F. J., Oliver J. L., Marín A., Medina J. R.. The generic stochastic model of nucleotide substitution.  Journal of Theoretical Biology. (1990);  142 485-501
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 42 Ronquist F., Huelsenbeck J. P.. MRBAYES: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models.  Bioinformatics. (2003);  19 1572-1574
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 43 Ruiz H., Pavón J.. Florae Peruvianae et Chilensis Prodromus. Madrid; (1794)
    Google Scholar
  • 44 Sang T., Crawford D. J., Stuessy T. F.. Chloroplast DNA phylogeny, reticulate evolution, and biogeography of Paeonia (Paeoniaceae).  American Journal of Botany. (1997);  84 1120-1136
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 45 Simmons M. P., Ochoterena H.. Gaps as characters in sequence-based phylogenetic analyses.  Systematic Biology. (2000);  49 369-381
    CrossrefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 46 Skottsberg C.. The genus Peperomia in Chile.  Acta Horti Gotoburgensis. (1947);  17 1-47
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 47 Smith A. C.. Flora Vitiensis.  Nova. (1981);  2 75-97
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 48 Stehlé H.. Flore Descriptive des Antilles Françaises 2 - Les Pipérales. Fort-de-France; Imprimerie du Gouvernement (1940)
    Google Scholar
  • 49 Swofford D. L.. PAUP*. Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (*and other Methods). Sunderland; Sinauer Associates (1998)
    Google Scholar
  • 50 Tebbs M. C.. Piperaceae. Kubitzki, K., ed. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants , Vol. 2. Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Magnoliid,. Hamamelid and Caryophyllid Families. Berlin; Springer-Verlag (1993)
    Google Scholar
  • 51 Thorne R. F.. Classification and geography of the flowering plants.  Botanical Review. (1992);  58 225-348
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 52 Trelease W.. The geography of American peppers.  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. (1930);  69 309-327
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 53 Tucker S. C., Douglas A. W., Liang H. X.. Utility of ontogenetic and conventional characters in determining phylogenetic relationships of Saururaceae and Piperaceae (Piperales).  Systematic Botany. (1993);  18 614-641
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 54 Walker J.. Comparative pollen morphology and phylogeny of the Ranalean complex. Beck, C., ed. Origin and Early Evolution of Angiosperms. New York; Columbia University Press (1976 a): 241-249
    Google Scholar
  • 55 Walker J.. Evolutionary significance of the exine in the pollen of primitive angiosperms. Fergusen, I. and Muller, J. eds. The Evolutionary Significance of the Exine. London; Academic Press (1976 b): 251-292
    Google Scholar
  • 56 Yuncker T. G.. Revision of the Hawaiian Species of Peperomia. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 112, 3 - 131, illust. (1933)
    Google Scholar
  • 57 Yuncker T. G.. The Piperaceae of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.  Lilloa. (1953);  27 97-303
    PubMedGoogle Scholar
  • 58 Yuncker T. G.. The Piperaceae of Brasil III. Peperomia: taxa of uncertain status.  Hoehnea. (1974);  4 71-413
    PubMedGoogle Scholar

S. Wanke

Institut für Botanik
Plant Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics Group
Technische Universität Dresden

01062 Dresden

Email: stefan.wanke@tu-dresden.de

Editor: F. Salamini

      >