Дискусійні питання системи роду Amelanchier Medik.

Abstract

Disputable issues of the genus Amelanchier Medik. taxonomy were discussed according the classical and molecular genetic approaches. The results of phylogenetical and molecular genetic researches, which were made by scientists of different countries, enable the possibility to specify the systematic position of the genus Amelanchier representatives of the family Rosaceae Juss., which are grown in Ukraine, and to place them temporarily in a big subfamily Amygdaloideae Arn., which combines the former subfamilies Amygdaloideae, Spiraeoideae, and Maloideae, tribe – Maleae Small, subtribe – Malinae Rev.