Table 1.

Summary statistics for nuclear ribosomal and plastid sequence data.

DNA region	No. of sequences in matrix	No. of new sequences in matrix	No. of published sequences in matrix	Alignment length	Unaligned sequence length (x‒ ± s.d.) (bp)	Maximum sequence length (bp)	Minimum sequence length (bp)
ITS [3’-18S–ITS1–5.8S–ITS2–5’-26S]	1079	294	785	1137	687 ± 154	1008	205
ITS 1				272	211 ± 15	221	16
5.8S				165	16 ± 22	165	1
ITS 2				266	209 ± 18	219	27
ETS	352	328	24	1925	548 ± 57	864	265
atpF–atpH	356	355	1	7391	599 ± 79	673	309
matK	928	367	561	1555	920 ± 295	1542	400
matK (reduced)*	368	367	1	966	774 ± 98	957	461
psbA–rps19–trnH	380	379	1	7592	583 ± 67	680	346
psbK–psbI	392	391	1	5863	362 ± 107	471	150
trnL–trnF	474	311	163	14814	785 ± 118	1026	310
trnL–trnF (reduced)**	341	311	30	1418	816 ± 78	1026	498

¹ The aligned atpF–atpH intergenic spacer is 521 bp; the entire region includes flanking portions of the atpF and atpH genes.

² The psbA–trnH intergenic spacer is 142 bp, the rsps19 gene is 219 bp, and the rps19–trnH intergenic spacer is 206 bp; the entire region includes flanking portions of the psbA and trnH genes.

³ The aligned psbK–psbI intergenic spacer is 519 bp; the entire region includes flanking portions of the psbK and psbI genes.

⁴ The aligned trnL intron is 671 bp, the aligned 3'-trnL exon is 65 bp and the aligned trnL–trnF intergenic spacer is 668 bp; the entire region includes flanking portions of the 5'-trnL exon and the trnF gene.

^* including only newly generated data and the outgroup

^** including newly generated data and a small subset of previously published data, including the outgroup