A new herbaceous genus endemic to Madagascar: Phialiphora (Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae)

Taxon

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1815-1829

  Groeninckx, Inge ^a   Briggs, Marie ^b   Davis, Aaron ^b   de Block, Petra ^c   Robbrecht, Elmar ^c   Smets, Erik ^a,d   Dessein, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^c BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conservation; Herbaceous; IUCN Red List Categories; Long distance dispersal; Madagascar; Molecular phylogeny; Phialiphora; Rubiaceae; White sand

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EOCENE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HERB; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENY; RED LIST; SAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; MADAGASCAR;

HEDYOTIS; OLDENLANDIA; RUBIACEAE; SPERMACOCEAE;

EID: 78751519951     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tax.596013     Document Type: Article

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