Pollen and seeds reveal that Spermacoce thymoidea s.l. (African Rubiaceae, Spermacoceae) represents three endemic or disjunct species from the Zambezian high plateaus

Systematic Botany

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 130-144

  Dessein, Steven ^a   Ntore, Salvator ^a   Robbrecht, Elmar ^b   Smets, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRERIA; RUBIACEAE; SPERMACOCE; SPERMACOCE STIPULARIS; SPERMACOCEAE;

EID: 0037221325     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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