TABLE 2.
Bulb ancestral trait transitions across Lilieae (see Figure 4).
| Node | Taxa | Ancestral trait possibility*1 |
Phenotypic evolution event matrix |
RASP route*2 | ||||
| A | B | C | Variation | New phenotypes divergence | Extinction | |||
| 1 | Lilieae most recent common ancestor (MRCA) | 37.80 | 10.58 | 51.62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | C → C C → C| C |
| 2 | Cardiocrinum, Fritillaria, and Lilium MRCA | 31.91 | 24.8 | 43.29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | C → CB → C| B |
| 3 | Fritillaria and Lilium MRCA | 18.13 | 56.78 | 25.10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | B → AB → A| B |
| 4 | Fritillaria MRCA | 56.92 | 2.08 | 41.00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | A → CA → C| A |
| 5 | Lilium MRCA | 1.34 | 94.80 | 3.85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | B → B B → B| B |
*1. A: few scales, B: many scales, C: numerous bulblets.
*2. : variation, | : new phenotypes divergence.