Morphological and molecular evidence of polyphyly in Rhodomyrtus (Myrtaceae: Myrteae)

Systematic Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 390-404

  Snow, Neil ^a   McFadden, Jessie ^b,c   Evans, Timothy M ^d   Salywon, Andrew M ^e,f   Wojciechowski, Martin F ^e   Wilson, Peter G ^g  

^a BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^c Conifer High School ^*  (United States)

^d GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^g ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archirhodomyrtus; ITS sequence variation; Kanakomyrtus; Myrtaceae; Myrteae; Octamyrtus; Rhodomyrtus; systematics; Syzygieae; Syzygium

Indexed keywords

ARCHIRHODOMYRTUS; CARPOLEPIS TARDIFLORA; DECASPERMUM; HETEROPYXIS NATALENSIS; LOPHOSTEMON CONFERTUS; METROSIDEROS ROTUNDIFOLIA; MYRTACEAE; PILIDIOSTIGMA; RHODAMNIA; RHODOMYRTUS; SYZYGIUM;

EID: 79959535991     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364411X569570     Document Type: Article

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