Hawaiian blueberries and their relatives - A phylogenetic analysis of Vaccinium sections Macropelma, Myrtillus, and Hemimyrtillus (Ericaceae)

Systematic Botany

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 768-779

  Powell, E Ann ^a   Kron, Kathleen A ^a   Liston, Aaron ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUD; CHLOROPLAST; CLADISTICS; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PHYLOGENY; RURAL AREA; SISTER GROUP; TAXON; UNITED STATES;

VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM CEREUM;

EID: 0036815386     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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