Evolution of growth form in epiphytic Dissochaeteae (Melastomataceae)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-60

  Clausing, Gudrun ^a   Renner, Susanne S ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Anomalous secondary xylem; Dissochaeteae; Epiphytism; Root climbers; Scrambling shrubs; Sonerileae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347450808     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-6092-00004     Document Type: Article

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