bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.05.421016; this version posted January 5, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Plastid phylogenomics of the Sansevieria clade (Dracaena; Asparagaceae) resolves a 2 rapid evolutionary radiation 3 4 Iris van Kleinweea, Isabel Larridona,b, Toral Shahb,d, Kenneth Bautersc, Pieter Asselmana, Paul 5 Goetghebeura,e, Frederik Leliaertc, Emily Veltjena,e,* 6 7 a Ghent University, Department of Biology, Systematic and Evolutionary Botany Lab, K.L. 8 Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium 9 b Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, UK 10 c Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium 11 d Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, Silwood Park Campus, Berks. SL5 7PY, UK 12 e Ghent University, Ghent University Botanical Garden, 9000 Gent, Belgium 13 14 * Corresponding author at: Ghent University, Department of Biology, Systematic and 15 Evolutionary Botany Lab, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium 16 E-mail address:
[email protected] (E. Veltjen) 17 18 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.05.421016; this version posted January 5, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 19 ABSTRACT 20 Sansevierias are a diverse group of flowering plants native to Africa, Madagascar, the 21 Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent, popular outside their native range as low 22 maintenance houseplants.