Convergent Morphological Evolution in Silene Sect. Italicae (Caryophyllaceae) in the Mediterranean Basin
Recent divergence can obscure species boundaries among closely related taxa.Silene section Italicae (Caryophyllaceae) has Play Mat been taxonomically controversial, with about 30 species described.We investigate species delimitation within this section using 500 specimens sequenced for one nuclear and two plastid markers.Despite the use of a small