“…Thus the European accessions of R. riparioides are resolved as sister to the European endemic R. alopecuroides, whereas the North American accessions of R. riparioides occur at the opposite side of the phylogeny along with the pantropical R. aquaticum. In many instances, incongruence between traditional species concepts and molecular data prompted renewed morphological evaluation, uncovering consistent morphological characters and the description of new species (e.g., Andres-Sanchez et al, 2009;Cezon et al, 2010;Särkinen et al, 2011;Szweykowski et al, 2005;Vanderpoorten et al, 2010b;Zomlefer et al, 2006). In fact, the LDA analysis, which attempts at finding the best combinations of morphological traits to distinguish the molecular lineages, points to the existence of morphological discontinuities among the latter.…”