Lamiales are coloured in red, and Caryophyllales are coloured in blue. While the ten C. deserticola sequences involved in horizontal gene transfer are coloured in red. Numbers at nodes are posterior probabilities >0.60 and maximum likelihood bootstrap values >60. The Genebank number: Oryza nivara, NC_005973; Antirrhinum indicum, GQ997028; Sesamum indicum, NC_016433; Boea hygrometrica, NC_016468; Jasminum nudiflorum, NC_008407; Olea europaea, NC_013707; Basella alba, HQ843359; Opuntia microdasys, HQ843375; Pereskia aculeata, HQ843376; Portulaca oleracea, HQ843380; Mollugo verticillata, HQ843373; Bougainvillea glabra, HQ843360; Mirabilis jalapa, HQ843372; Phytolacca americana, HQ843378; Celosia cristata, HQ843361; Spinacia oleracea, NC_002202; Silene conica, NC_016729; Stellaria media, HQ843386; Cistanche deserticola (HGT), KC543998.