Rhinantheae
Tribe of flowering plants in the broomrape family Orobanchaceae
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Rhinantheae is a tribe with fewer than 20 genera of herbaceous plants in the family Orobanchaceae.[1]
| Rhinantheae | |
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| Rhinanthus minor | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Orobanchaceae |
| Tribe: | Rhinantheae |
| Genera[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Phylogeny
The phylogeny of the genera of Rhinantheae has been explored using DNA markers.[3][4] Three assemblages can be distinguished in this tribe:
- Rhinanthus is the sister genus to Lathraea, and then to Rhynchocorys. These taxa are closely related to the core Rhinanteae.
- In the core Rhinantheae, Odontites sensu lato, including Bornmuellerantha and Bartsiella, is the sister genus to Bellardia, including Parentucellia and Bartsia canescens + B. mutica. These taxa are closely related to Hedbergia (including Bartsia decurva + B. longiflora) and Tozzia. In turn, these genera share phylogenetic affinities with Euphrasia, and then with Bartsia sensu stricto (Bartsia alpina).
- Melampyrum occupies an isolated, deep-branching position.
| Genus-level cladogram of the Rhinantheae. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The cladogram has been reconstructed from nuclear and plastid DNA molecular characters (ITS, rps16 intron and trnK region).[4][3] |
The median crown age of Rhinantheae was estimated to be ca. 30 Myr.[5]
Systematics
Rhinantheae is defined as the least inclusive crown clade that includes Pterygiella nigrescens, Rhinanthus cristagalli, Melampyrum pratense, and Tozzia alpina.[1] It comprises 19 genera.
- Bartsia
- Bartsiella
- Bellardia
- Bornmuellerantha
- Euphrasia
- Hedbergia
- Lathraea
- Macrosyringion
- Melampyrum
- Nothobartsia
- Odontitella
- Odontites
- Parentucellia
- Pseuodbartsia
- Pterygiella
- Rhinanthus
- Rhynchocorys
- Tozzia
- Xizangia