Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-662.16.00
Telephiinae
five-merous flowers with free petals, flat, dentate leaves, tuberous roots or thickened rhizomes
Hylotelephium-clade: 5 genera Hylotelephium, Orostachys, Meterostachys and Sinocrassula, also remains uncertain. In all phylogenies Hylotelephium and Rhodiola clades formed un- resolved polytomy (Mort et al. 2001; Mayuzumi and Ohba 2004; Gontcharova et al. 2006). It could not be ruled out that these clades have common ancestry but it is likely that their divergence was fast and could not be traced with the markers applied.
Molecular data fully confirmed the distinctness of Hylotelephium, Orostachys, Rhodiola, Phedimus and Aizopsis from Sedum where they were formerly classified