Paper · 2025 · Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Break it and better it: molecular and morphological data support the split of Ferulago (Apiaceae) into four genera

Dmitry Lyskov; Emine Akalın; Ali Bagheri; et al.

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Abstract

Abstract The genus Ferulago comprised more than 50 species distributed in Southwest Asia, Caucasia, Europe, and Northern Africa. In this study, morphological and molecular evidence shows Ferulago to be clearly polyphyletic, and the genus must be divided into four smaller genera, each closely related to different taxa of the Cachrys clade. According to molecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological data the genus Ferulago includes the only species F. thyrsiflora, whereas 52 taxa previously united in F. subgen. Galbanifera and F. sect. Anisotaenia form three separated genera.

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ferulago is clearly polyphyletic on molecular and morphological evidence.

Taxon
FerulagoFerulagoe1
Outcome
clearly polyphyletice1

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Ferulago
Ferulago · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“morphological and molecular evidence shows Ferulago to be clearly polyphyletic”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 144–222 · show in text ↑
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Claim · model-written summary

The genus Ferulago must be divided into four smaller genera.

Taxon
FerulagoFerulagoe1
Outcome
divided into four smaller generae1

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Ferulago
Ferulago · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Ferulago to be clearly polyphyletic, and the genus must be divided into four smaller genera”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 187–278 · show in text ↑
Observationobservedoriginal resultbasis n/a

Claim · model-written summary

The genus Ferulago includes only the species F. thyrsiflora according to molecular phylogenetic and morphological data.

Taxon
FerulagoFerulagoe1
Outcome
includes the only species F. thyrsiflorae1

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Ferulago
Ferulago · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“According to molecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological data the genus Ferulago includes the only species F. thyrsiflora”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 341–468 · show in text ↑
Observationobservedoriginal resultbasis n/a

Claim · model-written summary

The 52 taxa previously united in F. subgen. Galbanifera and F. sect. Anisotaenia form three separated genera.

Taxon
FerulagoFerulagoe1
Material
52 taxa previously united in F. subgen. Galbanifera and F. sect. Anisotaeniae1
Outcome
form three separated generae1

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Ferulago
Ferulago · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“the genus Ferulago includes the only species F. thyrsiflora, whereas 52 taxa previously united in F. subgen. Galbanifera and F. sect. Anisotaenia form three separated genera”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 409–582 · show in text ↑