Morphology and angiosperm systematics in the molecular era

Botanical Review

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 545-570

  Endress, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1663/0006-8101(2002)068[0545:MAASIT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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