(like Persea - Phoebe and Nectandra - Pleurothyrium - Ocotea in figures 21 and 22, or most of 
the Persea subgroup in figure 23) but mostly they are not. Furthermore, they come out in clades 
with some genera that stand morphologically far from them, like the clades Aiouea - Dehaasia., 
and Caryodaphnopsis - Umbellularia in figure 22. In general, the cladogram where the ancestor 
was included is closer to the scheme advanced by Rohwer (1993a). 
As for Cinnamomum, in two cases (figures 22 and 23) it comes out far from the genera 
usually considered as its relatives, e.g. Ocotea, Persea, and Phoebe (as has been commented 
early in this study); in the cladogram obtained where all characters were coded as unordered the 
relationships of these genera are not resolved (figure 21). In figure 22, Cinnamomum places 
along with some genera usually considered in the Laureae. Here, the characters that hold this 
group of genera as a clade are the presence of arylpropanoids, and the latrorse dehiscence of 
inner sporangia in the stamens of whorl III. Another character that is shared by this clade and the 
terminal nodes Persea to Alseodaphne is the overlapped position of sporangia in the anthers. In 
figure 23, Cinnamomum comes out as an independent line. In this case, characters that come at 
the node where Neocinnamomum arises and separate the clade Aiouea - Ravensara are presence 
of triplinerved leaves, and presence of domatia. Persistent tepals in the fruit is also a trait that 
supports this part of the cladogram. In the survey of the cladogram in figure 22 using MacClade 
(Maddison & Maddison, 1992) three apomorphies were found for Cinnamomum: 1) opposite 
leaves, 2) presence of domatia, and 3) perigynous flowers. Except for the last character, no other 
feature used to distinguish Cinnamomum (see table 2) was identified as an apomorphy for this 
genus. 
On the other hand, when the four morphological groups recognized in Cinnamomum (1. 
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