Morphological variations of lobate phytoliths from grasses in China and the south-eastern United States

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-87

  Lu, Houyuan ^a,b   Liu, Kam Biu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dumbbell; Grasses; Palaeoenvironment; Palynology; Phytolith lobate; Phytoliths; Silica bodies; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

GRASS; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYTOLITH; TAXONOMY;

CHINA; UNITED STATES;

ARUNDINOIDEAE; CHLORIDOIDEAE; PANICOIDEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 0037251501     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00166.x     Document Type: Article

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