The imbalanced supertree of flowering-plant phylogeny

Table 1 Sister taxa at the top ten most imbalanced nodes of flowering-plant phylogeny

	Diverse clade		Less diverse clade
Node	Clade name	Geographical distribution	Clade name	Geographical distribution
1	Lamiales I (mints)	Cosmopolitan	Plocospermataceae	Central America
2	Poaceae (grasses)	Cosmopolitan	Ecdeiocoleaceae (tussocky cord rush)	Australia
3	Monocots	Cosmopolitan	Acoraceae (sweet flag)	Old World and North America
4	Asparagales (asparagus)	Cosmopolitan	Xeronemataceae	New Zealand and New Caledonia
5	Lamiales II (mints)	Cosmopolitan	Tetrachondraceae	New Zealand and Patagonia
6	Fabaceae (legumes)	Cosmopolitan	Surianaceae	Pan subtropical to tropical
7	Caryophyllales I (carnations)	Cosmopolitan	Asteropeiaceae and Physenaceae	Madagascar
8	Caryophyllales II (carnations)	Cosmopolitan	Stegnospermaceae	North and Central America
9	Ranunculales (buttercups)	Cosmopolitan	Eupteleaceae	East Asia
10	Cyperaceae and Juncaceae (sedges and rushes)	Cosmopolitan	Thurniaceae	North and South America

The common clade name or an example of a representative species is given in brackets after the formal name. Most of the diverse clades refer to a subset of the group noted (for example, monocots refers to all monocots except Acoraceae); clades annotated I or II refer to different subsets of the same larger clade (for more details see [8]).

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