Monimiaceae sensu lato, an element of Gondwanan polar forests: Evidence from the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary wood flora of Antarctica

Australian Systematic Botany

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 207-230

  Poole, Imogen ^a,c   Gottwald, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Utrecht Branch ^*  (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAPHNANDRA; DORYHORA; HEDYCARYA; LAURELIA NOVAE-ZELANDIAE;

EID: 0035902013     PISSN: 10301887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SB00022     Document Type: Article

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