A high elevation ancestry for the Usambara Mountains and lowland populations of African violets (Saintpaulia, Gesneriaceae)

Systematics and Geography of Plants

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-44

  Lindqvist, C ^a   Albert, V A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Arc Mountains; Elevation; Molecular systematics; Saintpaulia shumensis; Shume Hill; Trichomes; Usambara Mountains

Indexed keywords

GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MOUNTAIN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; TRICHOME;

SAINTPAULIA; SAINTPAULIA INCONSPICUA; SAINTPAULIA MAFIENSIS; SAINTPAULIA SHUMENSIS; STREPTOCARPUS;

EID: 0034867704     PISSN: 03039153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3668751     Document Type: Article

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