Table 5.

Summary statistics of the five most useful introns and intergenic spacers for phylogeny reconstruction.

Region	Alignment length (bp)	Min. seq. length (bp)	Max. seq. length (bp)	% of variation*	Topology dist.*a	Branch lengths dist.*a
ndhA intron	1173	958	1109	1	0.85	0.89
petN-psbM	1233	986	994	0.39	1	0.79
trnG intron	706	670	699	0.2	1	0.91
clpP intron 1	852	732	750	0.21	0.89	0.9
rpl32-trnL	961	863	889	0.64	0.59	0.75

Regions were selected based on a standardized mean of three variables:

(1) Percentage of variable sites;

(2) Phylogenetic tree topology distance and

(3) Phylogenetic tree branch lengths distance.

^*Values standardized.

^aDistances computed using Kendall and Colijn (2016) method.