A checklist of the vascular plants of the lowland savannas of Belize, Central America

Phytotaxa

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-119

  Goodwin, Zoë A ^a   Lopez, German N ^b   Stuart, Neil ^c   Bridgewater, Samuel G M ^a   Haston, Elspeth M ^a   Cameron, Iain D ^c   Michelakis, Dimitris ^c   Ratter, James A ^a   Furley, Peter A ^c   Kay, Elma ^b   Whitefoord, Caroline ^d   Solomon, James ^e   Lloyd, Adam J ^f   Harris, David J ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE   (Belize)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^f Spatial Data Solutions ^*  (Belize)

Author keywords

Conservation; Endemics; Flora; Wetland

Indexed keywords

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84878342984     PISSN: 11793155     EISSN: 11793163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.101.1.1     Document Type: Article

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