Taxonomic significance of extracellular crystals on the phloem fibres of Taxaceae

Flora

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-178

  Lin, Jinxing ^a,b   Hu, Yushi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extracellular crystals; Phloem fibres; Systematics; Taxaceae

Indexed keywords

AUSTROTAXUS; TAXACEAE;

EID: 0031956588     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0367-2530(17)30835-6     Document Type: Article

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