Those for Gnetales are the most deviant of all those considered. This divergent outgroup either attaches on a long eudicot branch with
moderate bootstrap support in MP analyses or supports no particular root location in ML analysis. Removing the most rapidly
evolving sites in rate classifi cations based on two divergent angiosperm root placements with Gnetales yields strongly conflicting
root placements in MP analysis, despite substantial overlap in the estimated sets of conservative sites. However, the generally high
consistency in rooting signal among distantly related gymnosperm clades suggests that the long branch connecting angiosperms
to their extant relatives may not interfere substantially with inference of the angiosperm root.