Table 2. Comparison of our estimates of ages of Solanaceae lineages with those of Särkinen et al. ⁴³.

Solanaceae clades	Age estimates This study	Age estimates Särkinen et al. (2013)
Stem of Solanaceae*	64.0 my [48–83]	49my [46–54]
Crown of Solanaceae	42.2 my [26.8–55.2]	30.3 my [26.3–34.0]
Crown of “x = 12” clade (MRCA Solanum and Nicotiana)	39.5 my [21.9–44.4]	23.7 my [23.0–25.7]
Crown of Solanum	20.9 my [14.5–29.5]	15.6 my [13.1–17.5]
Stem of Capsicum*	19.0 my [11.5–25]	13 my [10–16]
Stem of Schultesianthus*	17.0 my [7–24]	13 my [9–19]
Stem of Brugmansia*	10.5 my [5–14]	7 my [4–10]

*Ages used as calibration in the Pteronymia phylogeny.