Out of chaos: Phylogenomics of Asian Sonerileae

Sonerileae is a diverse Melastomataceae lineage comprising about 1000 species in 44 genera, more than 70 percent of which occur in Asia. Asian Sonerileae are taxonomically intractable with obscure generic circumscriptions. The backbone phylogeny of this group has remained poorly resolved, possibly due to complexity caused by rapid radiation in early and middle Miocene, which hampers further systematic study. Here, we use genome resequencing data to reconstruct the phylogeny of Asian Sonerileae.