Morphometric analysis of the Taxus wallichiana complex (Taxaceae) based on herbarium material

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 307-335

  Möller, Michael ^a   Gao, Lian Ming ^b   Mill, Robert R ^a   Li, De Zhu ^b   Hollingsworth, Michelle L ^a   Gibby, Mary ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Geographical distribution; PCA; Taxonomy; Taxus fuana; Taxus sumatrana; Variety delimitation

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HERBARIUM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SICHUAN; SICHUAN BASIN; YUNNAN;

TAXACEAE; TAXUS; TAXUS FUANA; TAXUS SUMATRANA; TAXUS WALLICHIANA; TAXUS WALLICHIANA VAR. CHINENSIS; TAXUS WALLICHIANA VAR. MAIREI; TAXUS WALLICHIANA VAR. WALLICHIANA;

EID: 35848937333     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00697.x     Document Type: Article

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