Morphological characterization of seeds in Portulacaceae

Phytotaxa

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-24

  Ocampo, Gilberto ^a,b  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Caryophyllales; Portulaca; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886839390     PISSN: 11793155     EISSN: 11793163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.141.1.1     Document Type: Article

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