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  Re: [Aroid-l] Helicodiceros moved to Dracunculus????
From: Peter Boyce <phymatarum at googlemail.com> on 2011.12.13 at 04:55:49(22475)
Hi Alan,

Your rumour is a bit out-dated: Helicodiceros was in fact 'moved' to Dracunculus 1857! [Dracunculus muscivorus (L.f.) Parl., Fl. Ital. 2: 252 (1857).]

However, recent molecular analyses (e.g., Mansion et al 2008 [Systematic Biology 57(2), 269–285] have not only strongly supported that Helicodicerous is 'good' but that it is not even particularly closely related to Dracunculus, it is sister to Eminium. Dracunculus is sister to a clade comprising Gymnomesium (i.e., Arum pictum) + Arum.

Pete

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