12022-05-24T22:54:05-07:00Chloe Fusonace0df69849f7f6ca276190dc0c1fd86c005df18406882plain2022-05-24T22:56:40-07:00Chloe Fusonace0df69849f7f6ca276190dc0c1fd86c005df18C. siliqua was long thought to be the lone species in its genus. In the 1980s a sister species, C. oreothauma, was discovered. It is not included on this tree, but if it were, it would be in this spot, represented as another branch forming a clade with C. siliqua.
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12022-05-24T22:40:53-07:00Chloe Fusonace0df69849f7f6ca276190dc0c1fd86c005df18Ceratonia siliqua Phylogenetic Tree4Image of a phylogentic tree that depicts the divergence of the different subfamilies of the Leguminosae family, showing the evolutionary history of Ceratonia siliqua. #carobplain2022-05-24T23:14:34-07:00Figure 1 from Wojciechowski, M.F., Lavin, M. and Sanderson, M.J. (2004), A phylogeny of legumes (Leguminosae) based on analysis of the plastid matK gene resolves many well-supported subclades within the family. Am. J. Bot., 91: 1846-1862. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.91.11.184611/01/204Chloe Fusonace0df69849f7f6ca276190dc0c1fd86c005df18
