@article{Shipunov_Gladkova_Timoshina_Lee_Choi_Despiegelaere_Connolly_2019, title={Mysterious chokeberries: new data on the diversity and phylogeny of Aronia Medik. (Rosaceae)}, url={https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/789}, DOI={10.5852/ejt.2019.570}, abstractNote={<p class="p1"><em>Aronia</em> Medik. (chokeberry, Rosaceae) is a genus of woody shrubs with two or three North American species. Species boundaries and relationships between species of <em>Aronia</em> are frequently under question. The only European species in the genus, <em>A. mitschurinii</em> A.K.Skvortsov &amp; Maitul., is suggested to be an inter-generic hybrid. In order to clarify the relationships between species of <em>Aronia</em>, we performed several morphometric and molecular analyses and found that the molecular and morphological diversity within data on American <em>Aronia</em> is low, and species boundaries are mostly not clearly expressed. Whereas morphology is able to separate American species from <em>A. mitschurinii</em>,<em> </em>there is no support for such discrimination from the molecular data; our analyses did not reveal evidence of <em>A. mitschurinii</em> hybrid origin. We believe that higher-resolution markers are needed to resolve species boundaries and putative hybridization events.</p>}, number={570}, journal={European Journal of Taxonomy}, author={Shipunov, Alexey and Gladkova, Sofia and Timoshina, Polina and Lee, Hye Ji and Choi, Jinhee and Despiegelaere, Sarah and Connolly, Bryan}, year={2019}, month={Oct.} }