Phylogeny of Eremophila and tribe Myoporeae (Scrophulariaceae)

Abstract

Myoporeae is one of eight tribes recognised in the large, cosmopolitan plant family Scrophulariaceae sensu stricto. Tribe Myoporeae contains seven genera, four of which are endemic to Australia (Calamphoreus, Diocirea, Eremophila, Glycocystis), and the remaining three are distributed in the Caribbean (Bontia); Southern China and Japan (Pentacoelium); and throughout Australia, islands of the Pacific, Hawaii and Mauritius (Myoporum). The largest of these genera, Eremophila, contains over 220 species and is a major component of Australia’s largest biome, the Eremean (arid) zone. A monograph of the tribe was completed just over a decade ago (Chinnock, 2007), which provided an extensive and compr..