Flowering regimes of terrestrial orchids: Unpredictability or regularity?

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 269-273

  Kindlmann, Pavel ^a   Balounová, Zuzana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Energy partitioning model; Flowering regime; Life history; Orchidaceae

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING;

DACTYLORHIZA MAJALIS; LILIOPSIDA; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 0033117825     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3237148     Document Type: Article

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