Hypoxis limicola and H. uniflorata (Hypoxidaceae) deserve species rank: multiple new lines of evidence Author Niemann, Hendrik J. 0000-0001-9940-415X School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa & hennieniemann 92 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9940 - 415 X hennieniemann92@gmail.com Author Coetzer, Dewald J. 0000-0001-6443-1254 School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa & 2650996 @ students. wits. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6443 - 1254 2650996@students.wits.ac.za Author Glennon, Kelsey L. 0000-0002-0538-7916 School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa & kelsey. glennon @ wits. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0538 - 7916 kelsey.glennon@wits.ac.za text Phytotaxa 2023 2023-10-05 619 1 63 85 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.619.1.3 journal article 272024 10.11646/phytotaxa.619.1.3 0b2ec9e2-7130-4b58-8f3c-bdbba00b3538 1179-3163 8425746

TABLE 2. Summary of individual and combined matrix partition statistics, as well as maximum parsimony tree statistics.

	Combined	rbcL	trnL-F	trnS-G
ᵃ Parsimony informative characters. ᵇ Maximum parsimony searches.
Number of taxa	63	63	62	62
Aligned length	3943	1365	1197	1381
Unique characters	1561	309	514	738
Invariant characters	2913	1156	872	885
PI charactersᵃ	568	123	170	275
Number of trees (MPᵇ)	45	1684	1252	966
Tree length (MPᵇ)	1639	320	490	814
Retention Index	0.871	0.898	0.888	0.854
Consistency Index	0.766	0.734	0.794	0.775