Parrya beketovii and P. saposhnikovii did not nest within the Chorisporeae, and in both markers they demonstrated a strong relationship (minimum 99% BS and 96% JK for ITS) to Leiospora (tribe Euclidieae), a genus represented in the present analysis by two species including its type L. exscapa (C.A. Mey.) Dvorˇa´k. Both species have fruits with terete replum concealed by an angled or thickened valve margin, short styles 0.5–1.5(–2) mm long, short stigmas with triangular, not or slightly connivent lobes, and large rounded petals, all of which characters are anomalous in Parrya but characteristic of Leiospora.