Abstract
Tibouchina urvilleana Cogn. is native to southern Brazil and currently cultivated as an important ornamental shrub in frost free areas around the world. Its rapid vegetative growth and sterility suggests that it might be of hybrid origin. In this study, Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and chloroplast trnL- trnF spacer from T. urvilleana and three other congeneric species were sequenced to test its hybrid status. Cloning sequencing revealed two distinct types of ITS sequences from T. urvilleana, with one type almost identical with Tibouchina aspera. Genetic distance between the two types was much larger than the average interspecific genetic distances calculated from other Tibouchina species. Sequencing of chloroplast trnL- trnF spacer showed that T. urvilleana has identical sequence with T. aspera, but differed from other congeneric species by one nucleotide substitution and two indels. Molecular data demonstrated clearly that T. urvilleana indeed was a hybrid, with T. aspera or closely related species acting as the maternal parent.
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