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Comparison of results from the ITS and matK
| Data set | matK | ITS |
| Number of taxa | 41 | 18 |
| Total characters | 960 | 522 |
| Informative substitutions | 228 | 187 |
| Number of MPTs | 8 | 6 |
| Number of steps | 556 | 357 |
| Consistency index (CI) | 0·7115 | 0·7437 |
| Retention index (RI) | 0·9294 | 0·8321 |
| Mean pairwise distances, ingroup (%) | 11·6 | 25·2 |
The consistency and homoplasy indexes are calculated excluding uninformative characters.
