Phylogenetics of the grass genus Ehrharta: Evidence for radiation in the summer-arid zone of the South African Cape

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1008-1021

  Verboom, G Anthony ^a   Linder, H Peter ^a,b   Stock, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Institute of Systematic Botany   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cape flora; Climate change; Ehrharteae; Speciation; Succulent karoo

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASS; MIOCENE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

CAPE PROVINCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EHRHARTA; EHRHARTEAE; EHRHARTOIDEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; POACEAE;

EID: 0038650581     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00312.x     Document Type: Article

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