I thought I read something Tony Hall wrote for one of those international symposia--the New Zealand one back about 2000 in which he suggested that the junos were more akin to the bearded irises than to the other "bulbous" irises.
AMW
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From: Sean Zera <zera@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: [iris-species] Classification of Iridaceae
There is a newer, expanded version of that cladogram here:
Some of the relationships are fascinating (though perhaps not too surprising). Nepalensis, evansias and junos are each other's closest relatives, while the other bulbous species are related to spurias. As was suggested by Anderson in the '30s, tridentata and virginica are closely related. The placement of siberica seems unlikely. It's interesting that cristata/lacustris is the sister group to the rest of the beardless, and I'm surprised Iris verna didn't make it into the study. The Tenuifoliae are missing as well, but that's less surprising.
Anyone have access to her papers?
Wilson, C. A. (2004). Phylogeny of Iris based on chloroplast matK gene and trnK intron sequence data. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 33(2), 402-412.
Wilson, C. A. (2011). Subgeneric classification in Iris re-examined using chloroplast sequence data. taxon, 60(1), 27-35.
Sean Z
