Table 2.

Instances of polyploid long-distance dispersal in angiosperms

Clade	Family	Ancestral area	Derived area	Reference
Loliinae (fescues)	Poaceae	Eurasia, diploid	Global, polyploid	Inda et al. (2008)
Santalum (sandalwoods)	Santalaceae	Australia, all diploid	Pacific islands, mostly polyploid	Harbaugh (2008)
Nicotiana (tobacco)	Solanaceae	South America, most diploid	Africa, Australia, polyploid	Aoki and Ito (2000); Chase et al. (2003)
Microseris	Asteraceae	Americas, diploid	Australia, allotetraploid	Vijverberg et al. (1999)
Argyroxiphium (silverswords)	Asteraceae	Americas, diploid	Hawaii, tetraploid	Baldwin and Wagner (2010)
Lepidium	Brassicaceae	Americas, diploid	Australia, allotetraploid	Mummenhoff et al. (2006)
Collomia, Naverretia	Polemoniaceae	North America, diploid	Patagonia, allotetraploid	Johnson et al. (2012)

Polyploidy was inferred based on the chromosome numbers, with allotratraploidy inferred from the formation of bivalents at meiosis.