Epiphytic lineage

We also attempted to include in the analysis representatives of most nontropical families of pleurocarps, as our main hypothesis was that the Leskeaceae is an unnatural group, composed by epiphytic lineages of different families. GenBank accession numbers and specimen data are shown in Appendix 9.1 and on the supplanental CD. Species nomenclature in most cases follows Ignatov and Ignatova (2004) or, for taxa not present in that pnbUcation, Crosby et al. (1999). 

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