The migration of the palaeotropical arid flora: Zygophylloideae as an example

Systematic Botany

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 951-959

  Bellstedt, Dirk U ^a   Galley, Chlo ^b   Pirie, Michael D ^a,b   Linder, H Peter ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

African Arid Corridor; ancestral area reconstruction; biogeography; dispersal; molecular dating; Zygophyllum

Indexed keywords

ZYGOPHYLLACEAE; ZYGOPHYLLOIDEAE; ZYGOPHYLLUM;

EID: 84868094767     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364412X656608     Document Type: Article

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