Not so neotropical after all: The grammitid fern genus Leucotrichum (polypodiaceae) is also paleotropical, as revealed by a new species from Madagascar

Systematic Botany

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 331-338

  Rouhan, Germinal ^a   Labiak, Paulo H ^b   Randrianjohany, Emile ^c   Rakotondrainibe, France ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c Laboratoire de Microbiologie de l'Environnement   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

cpDNA; Grammitidaceae; Indian Ocean; long distance dispersal; phylogeny; pteridophytes

Indexed keywords

FILICOPHYTA; GRAMMITIDACEAE; POLYPODIACEAE; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 84860787712     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364412X635386     Document Type: Article

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