Pollen grain size, stigma depth, and style length: The relationships revisited

Plant Systematics and Evolution

Volumn 278, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 223-238

  Cruden, Robert William ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabaceae; Flower size; Pollen grain size; Proteaceae; Stigma depth; Style length

Indexed keywords

FABACEAE; PROTEACEAE;

EID: 63949085843     PISSN: 03782697     EISSN: 16156110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-008-0142-8     Document Type: Article

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