Botanical systematics 1950-2000: Change, progress, or both?

Taxon

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 635-659

  Stevens, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Evolutionary systematics; Phenetics; Species

Indexed keywords

BOTANY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0034545466     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1223969     Document Type: Article

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