Brevianthaceae

Patzak, Simon D. F., Renner, Matt A. M., Schäfer-Verwimp, Alfons, Feldberg, Kathrin, Heslewood, Margaret M., Peralta, Denilson F., de Souza, Aline Matos, Schneider, Harald & Heinrichs, Jochen, 2016, A phylogeny of Lophocoleaceae-Plagiochilaceae-Brevianthaceae and a revised classification of Plagiochilaceae, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 16 (3), pp. 481-495 : 490

Brevianthaceae

Brevianthaceae was set up for a single species, B. flavus ( Engel and Schuster 1981) . Renner et al. (2015) described a second species and Söderström et al. (2013) added Tetracymbaliella based on the sister relationship of T. cymbalifera and Brevianthus recovered by He-Nygrén et al. (2006) and Feldberg et al. (2010c, 2014). Here, we include further accessions of Tetracymbaliella and confirm its sister relationship with Brevianthus . We also provide evidence for the species status of the Tasmanian T. subsimplex ( Engel 2015b) . The earlier treatment of Tetracymbaliella as a subgenus of the lophocolean genus Heteroscyphus ( Engel and Schuster 1984) was not supported by molecular evidence ( Engel et al. 2010) and is also not confirmed in the present phylogeny yet demonstrates the extensive morphological overlap of Lophocoleaceae and Brevianthaceae . According to the presented phylogeny, Brevianthaceae could be treated as a synonym or subfamily of Lophocoleaceae ; however, with regard to the limited sampling of Lophocoleaceae , we consider such treatments premature.