Philyrophyllum (Asteraceae) transferred from Gnaphalieae to Athroismeae based on phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and plastid DNA sequence data

The small southern African genus Philyrophyllum (Asteraceae) has traditionally been placed amongst the basal lineages of tribe Gnaphalieae, close to the Namibian‐centred genus Pentatrichia . However, a recent plastid phylogeny placed Philyrophyllum distant from Pentatrichia within the Gnaphalieae crown radiation, a finding that is strongly contradicted by a suite of morphological synapormorphies that are otherwise unvarying within the crown...