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About 24% of these species have lime-encrusted leaves caused by unique lime-secreting glands, which contain epithem hydathodes that are connected to the xylem. These glands release guttation fluid presumably containing dissolved calcium hydrogen carbonate. We examined their structure in 81 representative species and subspecies using light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Lime incrustations are confined to two of the fifteen\n                      <jats:italic>Saxifraga<\/jats:italic>\n                      sections, which typically inhabit calcareous or base-rich substrates. Thus, the lime secretion may contribute to regulating internal Ca\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      \u207a concentrations, among other functions. Phylogenetic analysis of the entire genus\n                      <jats:italic>Saxifraga<\/jats:italic>\n                      shows that the ability to produce lime incrustations evolved once in the last common ancestor (LCA) of the sections\n                      <jats:italic>Ligulatae<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>Porphyrion<\/jats:italic>\n                      . However, this ability was subsequently lost in two lineages: sections\n                      <jats:italic>Gymnopera<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>Trachyphyllum<\/jats:italic>\n                      . The peculiar sunken hydathodes on the adaxial leaf surface and their association with camptodromous leaf vascularization support this scenario because they suggest that lime secretion is a complex anatomical and physiological syndrome that is unlikely to have evolved twice. While this syndrome plays a role in ecological adaptation and biogeography, it does not appear to be a classic evolutionary key innovation. Most species also have amphistomatic leaves with notable interspecific differences in stomatal arrangement related to hydathode arrangement. 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