Early Tertiary floral evolution in the Canadian high Arctic

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 523-545

  McIver, E E ^b   Basinger, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.2307/2666184     Document Type: Article

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