Ceropegia (Apocynaceae, Ceropegieae, Stapeliinae): Paraphyletic but still taxonomically sound

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 392-406

  Meve, Ulrich ^a   Liede Schumann, Sigrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachystelma; Ceropegia; ITS; Molecular systematics; Morphology; Paraphyly; Phylogeny; trnL intron; trnT L and trnL F spacers

Indexed keywords

APOCYNACEAE; BRACHYSTELMA; CEROPEGIA; CEROPEGIEAE;

EID: 34547676163     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/0026-6493(2007)94[392:CACSPB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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