The whole and the parts: Relationships between floral architecture and floral organ shape, and their repercussions on the interpretation of fragmentary floral fossils

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-120

  Endress, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autonomous shape; Cuneate; Floral architecture; Imprinted shape; Reduced organs

Indexed keywords

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 42449140250     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/2006190     Document Type: Article

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