A revision of African Velloziaceae based on leaf anatomy characters and rbcL nucleotide sequences

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-94

  Behnke, H Dietmar ^a   Hummel, Eric ^a,b   Hillmer, Stefan ^a   Sauer Gürth, Hedwig ^a   Gonzalez, Javier ^a   Wink, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acanthochlamys; Barbacenia; Barbaceniopsis; Cyclanthaceae; Madagascar; Morphology; Vellozia; Xerophyta

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MONOCOTYLEDON; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

MADAGASCAR;

ACANTHOCHLAMYS; BARBACENIA; BARBACENIOPSIS; CYCLANTHACEAE; VELLOZIA; VELLOZIACEAE; XEROPHYTA;

EID: 84876706859     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boj.12018     Document Type: Article

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