Fig. 12.

Evolution of antipodal proliferation in monocots. In all cases except for the Poales, the character state assigned to the group has been resolved as the ancestral condition for that group based on the present analysis. The ancestral condition within the Poales is unresolved, and is classified as polymorphic. (A) Phylogeny of Soltis et al. (2007). (B) Phylogeny of Graham et al. (2006). For both of these phylogenetic hypotheses of angiosperm and monocot relationships, parsimony analysis reveals that antipodal proliferation either evolved in or was present in the common ancestor of all monocots.