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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 2013, 55 (11): 1069– 1079 Research Article Phylogeny and Classification of Prunus sensu lato (Rosaceae) Shuo Shi1,2, Jinlu Li1,3, Jiahui Sun1,2, Jing Yu1,2 and Shiliang Zhou1* 1State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100043, China 3College of Landscape Architecture, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China Correspondence author Tel: þ86 10 6283 6503; Fax: þ86 10 6259 0843; E‐mail: slzhou@ Available online on 14 August 2013 at and /journal/jipb doi: 10.1111/jipb.12095 Abstract The classification of the economically important genus Prunus L. sensu lato (s.l.) is controversial due to the high levels of convergent or the parallel evolution of morphological characters. In the present study, phylogenetic analyses of fifteen main segregates of Prunus s.l. represented by eighty‐four species were conducted with maximum parsimony and Bayesian approaches using twelve chloroplast regions (atpB‐ rbcL, matK, ndhF, psbA‐trnH, rbcL, rpL16, rpoC1, rps16, trnS‐G, trnL, trnL‐F and ycf1) and three nuclear genes (ITS, s6pdh and SbeI) to explore their infrageneric relationships. The results of these analyses were used to develop a new, phylogeny‐based classification of Prunus s.l. Our phylogenetic reconstructions resolved three main clades of Prunus s.l. with strong supports. We adopted a broad‐sensed genus, Prunus, and recognised three subgenera corresponding to the three main clades: subgenus Padus, subgenus Cerasus and subgenus Prunus. Seven sections of subgenus Prunus were recognised. The dwarf cherries, which were previously assigned to subgenus Cerasus, were included in this subgenus Prunus. One new section name, Prunus L. subgenus Prunus section Persicae (T. T. Yü