Morphological and molecular evidence of natural hybridization between two distantly related Rhododendron species from the Sino-Himalaya

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-129

  Zha, Hong Guang ^a   Milne, Richard Ian ^b   Sun, Hang ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AFLP; Chloroplast DNA sequences; Internal transcribed spacer (ITS); Rhododendron decorum; Rhododendron delavayi

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; EVERGREEN TREE; EVOLUTION; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ERICACEAE; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM; RHODODENDRON DECORUM; RHODODENDRON DELAVAYI;

EID: 38149052912     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00752.x     Document Type: Article

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