Table 2 Characteristics of the phylogenetic data. ’PI" indicates characters that are phylogenetically informative. ITStrn L-FITS DNAITS indelstrn L-F DNAtrn L-F indelsTOTAL / average:Aligned length (bp)67756805451601 / 320No. PI characters200208529351 / 70% PI characters29.535.710.664.446.9 / 9.4No. (and percentage) of Calenduleae species represented35 (30.2%)31 (26.7%)37 / 34No. (and percentage) of Garuleum species represented Ɨ5 (62.5%)5 (62.5%)5 / 5No. (and percentage) of Dimorphotheca species represented Ƨ7 (35%)3 (15%)7 / 6No. (and percentage) of Osteospermum species represented*23 (26.1%)23 (26.1%)25 / 24 Ɨ Garuleum comprises 8 species, according to Swelankomo (2013). Ƨ Dimorphotheca comprises 20 species, according to Nordenstam (1994a) and Nordenstam (2006). * Osteospermum comprises 88 species, including 15 species in O. sect. Calendula, according to a literature survey; species in O. sect. Calendula according to Meikle (1976).

Published as part of Sadler, Robert, Parker, Thaabiet, Verboom, George Anthony, Ellis, Allan G., Jackson, Mariëtte, van Zyl, Juanita, Manning, John & Bergh, Nicola G., 2022, A molecular phylogeny of Calenduleae (Asteraceae) supports the transfer of Dimorphotheca polyptera DC. to Osteospermum L., pp. 238 in South African Journal of Botany 151 on page 238, DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2022.09.001, http://zenodo.org/record/10496950