Cladogenesis and reticulation in the Hawaiian endemic mints (Lamiaceae)

doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2003.tb00384.x

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Wiley InterScience

Cladistics

Volume 19 Issue 6, Pages 480 - 495

Published Online: 19 Jul 2005

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Cladogenesis and reticulation in the Hawaiian endemic mints (Lamiaceae)

Charlotte Lindqvist ^a *, Timothy J Motley ^b , John J Jeffrey ^c , Victor A Albert ^a

^a The Natural History Museums and Botanical Garden, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway ^b The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics Studies, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, NY 10458-5126, USA ^c Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish and Wildlife Service, 32 Kinoole Street, Suite 101, Hilo, HI 96720, USA

*Corresponding author. E-mail address:charlotte.lindqvist@nhm.uio.no (C.Lindqvist).

Abstract

The Hawaiian endemic mints, which comprise 58 species of dry-fruited Haplostachys and fleshy-fruited Phyllostegia and Stenogyne, represent a major island radiation that likely originated from polyploid hybrid ancestors in the temperate North American Stachys lineage. In contrast with considerable morphological and ecological diversity among taxa, sequence variation in the nrDNA 5S non-transcribed spacer was found to be remarkably low, which when analyzed using standard parsimony resulted in a lack of phylogenetic resolution among accessions of insect-pollinated Phyllostegia and bird-pollinated Stenogyne. However, many within-individual nucleotide polymorphisms were observed, and under the assumption that they could contain phylogenetic information, these ambiguities were recoded as new character states. Substantially more phylogenetic structure was obtained with these data, including the resolution of most Stenogyne species into a monophyletic group with an apparent recent origin on O'ahu (3.0 My) or the Maui Nui island complex (2.2 My). Subsequent diversification appears to have involved multiple inter-island dispersal events. Intergeneric placements for a few morphotypes, seemingly misplaced within either Phyllostegia or Stenogyne, may indicate reticulation as one polymorphism-generating force. For a finer scale exploration of hybridization, preliminary AFLP fragment data were examined among putative hybrids of Stenogyne microphylla and S. rugosa from Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, that had been identified based on morphology. Cladistic analysis (corroborated by multivariate correspondence analysis) showed the morphologically intermediate individuals to group in a strongly supported monophyletic clade with S. microphylla. Therefore, reticulation could be both historic and active in Stenogyne, and perhaps a force of general importance in the evolution of the Hawaiian mints. The relatively greater extent of lineage-sorted polymorphisms in Stenogyne may indicate selective differentiation from other fleshy-fruited taxa, perhaps through the agency of highly specialized bird pollinators that restricted gene flow with other Hawaiian mint morphotypes.