Growing coffee: Psilanthus (Rubiaceae) subsumed on the basis of molecular and morphological data; implications for the size, morphology, distribution and evolutionary history of Coffea

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 357-377

  Davis, Aaron P ^a   Tosh, James ^b   Ruch, Nicolas ^a,c   Fay, Michael F ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accD psa1 intergenic spacer (IGS); Coffeeae; Crop wild relatives (CWR); Internal transcribed spacer (ITS); Molecular phylogenetics; Morphology; Old World biogeography; rpl16 intron; trnL F IGS; trnL F intron

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; COFFEE; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RELATEDNESS; TAXONOMY; WILD POPULATION;

COFFEA; COFFEA LIBERICA; COFFEEAE; MELANOCARPUS; PSILANTHUS; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 81855161777     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01177.x     Document Type: Article

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