A phylogeny for the African Restionaceae and new perspectives on morphology's role in generating complete species phylogenies for large clades

International Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-390

  Hardy, Christopher R ^a,b   Moline, Philip ^a   Linder, H Peter ^a  

^a Institute for Systematic Botany   (Switzerland)

^b MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Restionaceae; Bayesian; Cape floristic region; Continuous characters; Interactive keys; Morphological characters; Simultaneous analysis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; DNA; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY;

RESTIO; RESTIONACEAE;

EID: 40549106466     PISSN: 10585893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/526467     Document Type: Article

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