Fossil evidence for the onset of xeromorphy and scleromorphy in Australian Proteaceae

Australian Systematic Botany

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 391-400

  Hill, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; LEAF; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PROTEACEAE;

EID: 0032564288     PISSN: 10301887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/sb97016     Document Type: Article

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