Reproductive strategies and constraints of alpine plants as illustrated by five species of Australian alpine Ranunculus

Opera Botanica

Volumn , Issue 132, 1997, Pages 101-108

  Pickering, Catherine M ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS;

EID: 0030775674     PISSN: 00785237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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