One has to love #Phylogenomics and its fully resolved trees (first pic, based on a "supermatrix" combining complete plastomes, nrDNA and up to 500 nuclear loci)
But it can be a quick spoiler to look at the data behind them
(second pic; the authors and whoever is responsible for #PeerReview didn't bother to take the old "fragment" papers for serious)
And here's the summarising doodle for the final part 3 of my blogpost miniseries Big Data = No Brain? (to be fixed in the hopefully near future)
A cactus tree metaphor for the reticulate #Phylogeny of #Maples
Already online (#OldPosts)
Pt. 1: Complete plastomes vs. 500 nuclear genes
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/01/big-data-no-brain-pt-1-complete.html
Pt. 2: Diggin deeper
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/10/big-data-no-brain-pt-2-digging-deeper.html