Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy (식물분류학회지)

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Evaluation of the taxonomic rank of the terrestrial orchid Cephalanthera subaphylla based on allozymes

  • CHUNG, Mi Yoon (Division of Life Science and the Research Institute of Natural Science (RINS), Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • SON, Sungwon (Division of Plant Resources, Korea National Arboretum) ;
  • CHUNG, Jae Min (Division of Plant Resources, Korea National Arboretum) ;
  • LOPEZ-PUJOL, Jordi (Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB,CSIC-ICUB)) ;
  • YUKAWA, Tomohisa (Tsukuba Botanical Garden, National Museum of Nature and Science) ;
  • CHUNG, Myong Gi (Department of Biology and RINS, Gyeongsang National University)
  • Received : 2019.05.26
  • Accepted : 2019.06.24
  • Published : 2019.06.30
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Abstract

The taxonomic rank of the tiny-leaved terrestrial orchid Cephalanthera subaphylla Miyabe & $Kud{\hat{o}}$ has been somewhat controversial, as it has been treated as a species or as an infraspecific taxon, under C. erecta (Thunb.) Blume [C. erecta var. subaphylla (Miyabe & $Kud{\hat{o}}$) Ohwi and C. erecta f. subaphylla (Miyabe & $Kud{\hat{o}}$) M. Hiro]. Allozyme markers, traditionally employed for delimiting species boundaries, are used here to gain information for determining the taxonomic status of C. subaphylla. To do this, we sampled three populations of five taxa (a total of 15 populations) of Cephalanthera native to the Korean Peninsula [C. erecta, C. falcata (Thunb.) Blume, C. longibracteata Blume, C. longifolia (L.) Fritsch, and C. subaphylla]. Among 20 putative loci resolved, three were monomorphic (Dia-2, Pgi-1, and Tpi-1) across the five species. Apart from C. longibracteata, there was no allozyme variation within the remaining four species. Of the 51 alleles harbored by these 17 polymorphic loci, each of the 27 alleles at 14 loci was unique to a single species. Accordingly, we found low average values of Nei's genetic identities (I) between ten species pairs (from I = 0.250 for C. erecta versus C. longifolia to I = 0.603 for C. falcata vs. C. longibracteata), with C. subaphylla being genetically clearly differentiated from the other species (from I = 0.349 for C. subaphylla vs. C. longifolia to 0.400 for C. subaphylla vs. C. falcata). These results clearly indicate that C. subaphylla is not genetically related to any of the other taxa of Cephalanthera that are native to the Korean Peninsula, including C. erecta. In a principal coordinate analysis (PCoA), C. subaphylla was positioned distant not only from C. falcata, C. longibracteata, and C. longifolia, but also from C. erecta. Finally, K = 5 was the best clustering scheme using a Bayesian approach, with five clusters precisely corresponding to the five taxa. Thus, our allozyme results strongly suggest that C. subaphylla merits the rank of species.

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