Revisiting monophyly in Haworthia duval (Asphodelaceae): Incongruence, hybridization and contemporary speciation

Taxon

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1001-1014

  Ramdhani, Syd ^a,b   Barker, Nigel P ^c   Cowling, Richard M ^a  

^a NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Contemporary radiation; Haworthia; Hybridization; Incongruence; ITS1; Non monophyly; Psba trnh; Trnl trnf

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HETEROGENEITY; HYBRIDIZATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MICROCLIMATE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MONOCOTYLEDON; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TOPOLOGY;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

ASPHODELACEAE; HAWORTHIA;

EID: 80052205236     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tax.604005     Document Type: Article

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