Five vicarious genera from Gondwana: The Velloziaceae as shown by molecules and morphology

Annals of Botany

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-102

  Mello Silva, Renato ^a   Santos, Déborah Yara A C ^a   Salatino, Maria Luiza F ^a   Motta, Lucimar B ^a   Cattai, Marina B ^a   Sasaki, Denise ^a   Lovo, Juliana ^a   Pita, Patrícia B ^a   Rocini, Cintia ^a   Rodrigues, Cristiane D N ^a   Zarrei, Mehdi ^b   Chase, Mark W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acanthochlamys; Barbacenia; Barbaceniopsis; Gondwanian origin; morphological and molecular characters; phylogenetic analysis; Vellozia; Velloziaceae; vicarious distribution; Xerophyta

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; FLORAL TRAIT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GONDWANA; MONOCOTYLEDON; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATEDNESS; TAXONOMY; VICARIANCE;

ACANTHOCHLAMYS; AYLTHONIA; BARBACENIA; BARBACENIOPSIS; BURLEMARXIA; NANUZA; PANDANALES; PLEUROSTIMA; TALBOTIA; VELLOZIA; VELLOZIACEAE; XEROPHYTA;

PLANT DNA;

AFRICA; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AMERICA;

AFRICA; ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79959719861     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr107     Document Type: Article

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