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Botanical Orchid Glossary

Glossary Term: Polyphyletic

Containing descendants from more than one ancestral taxon, where these ancestral taxa do not form a monophyletic group.

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Polyphyletic: The red taxa t1, t5, and t6 form a polyphyletic group; the bullets refer to shared character states
Polyphyletic

The red taxa t1, t5, and t6 form a polyphyletic group; the bullets refer to shared character states