Term:
Monophyletic
Monophyletic
Definition:
A group derived from the same ancestral taxon.
A group derived from the same ancestral taxon.
Glossary Details:
Title: A partial phylogeny of neotropical Lecythidaceae.
Description: The phylogenetic position of the monophyletic Gustavia (Lecythidaceae). The clade comprising species of Gustavia has a bootstrap value of 87% indicating that this clade is recovered 87 times out of 100 iterations of the tree. The entire tree can be seen in Mori et al. 2007.