Vestured pits in Malvales s.l.: A character with taxonomic significance hidden in the secondary xylem

Taxon

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-182

  Jansen, Steven ^a   Baas, Pieter ^b   Smets, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classification; Malvales s.l.; Phylogeny; Scanning electron microscopy; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034085196     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1223833     Document Type: Article

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