Figure 1.
Characteristics and morphological variation of the tribe Morindeae (for details see text).
A–B: Appunia debilis; C: Morinda citrifolia; D: Morinda pacifica; E: Coelospermum fragrans; F: Coelospermum balansanum; G: Gynochthodes kanalensis; and H: Gynochthodes retusa (A–C by T. D. McDowell; D by F. Tronquet; E–G by J. T. Johansson; and H by K. Kainulainen).
Table 1.
Morphological characteristics and other important information of the five recognized genera of the tribe Morindeae.
Figure 2.
Bayesian majority rule consensus tree from the combined nrETS/nrITS/trnT-F data of 61 Morindeae taxa.
Values above nodes are the posterior probabilities. Capital letters A–G denote selected nodes whose state probabilities were estimated for the states of the four characters (1–4). Data shown across the tips are growth habit (character 1: 0 = lianescent, 1 = arborescent, 2 = herbaceous), inflorescence architecture (character 2: 0 = headed inflorescences (heads); 1 = non-headed inflorescences), flower size (character 3: 0 = large, 1 = small), and fruit type (character 4: 0 = simple fruits, 1 = fused or multiple fruits). SF and LF stand for small and large fruits, respectively.
Table 2.
Bayesian reconstruction of ancestral states in the four characters (1–4) at seven nodes (A–G) across a posterior sample of trees including Morindeae but no outgroup.
Table 3.
Bayesian reconstruction of ancestral states in the four characters (1–4) at seven nodes (A–G) across a posterior sample of trees including Morindeae as well as the outgroup taxa Damnacanthus indicus and Mitchella repens (Mitchelleae).