Molecular and morphological data supporting phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus Goniothalamus (Annonaceae), including a reassessment of previous infrageneric classifications

Chin Cheung Tang; Daniel C Thomas; Richard M K Saunders

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2015.06.021

Molecular and morphological data supporting phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus Goniothalamus (Annonaceae), including a reassessment of previous infrageneric classifications

Data Brief. 2015 Jul 9:4:410-21. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2015.06.021. eCollection 2015 Sep.

Authors

Chin Cheung Tang¹, Daniel C Thomas², Richard M K Saunders¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China.
² School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China ; Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569, Singapore.

Abstract

Data is presented in support of a phylogenetic reconstruction of the species-rich early-divergent angiosperm genus Goniothalamus (Annonaceae) (Tang et al., Mol. Phylogenetic Evol., 2015) [1], inferred using chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) sequences. The data includes a list of primers for amplification and sequencing for nine cpDNA regions: atpB-rbcL, matK, ndhF, psbA-trnH, psbM-trnD, rbcL, trnL-F, trnS-G, and ycf1, the voucher information and molecular data (GenBank accession numbers) of 67 ingroup Goniothalamus accessions and 14 outgroup accessions selected from across the tribe Annoneae, and aligned data matrices for each gene region. We also present our Bayesian phylogenetic reconstructions for Goniothalamus, with information on previous infrageneric classifications superimposed to enable an evaluation of monophyly, together with a taxon-character data matrix (with 15 morphological characters scored for 66 Goniothalamus species and seven other species from the tribe Annoneae that are shown to be phylogenetically correlated).