Taxonomic uncertainty and a continental conundrum: Polypodium macaronesicum reassessed

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 449-460

  Rumsey, Fred J ^a   Robba, Lavinia ^b   Schneider, Harald ^a   Carine, Mark A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Macaronesia; Oceanic islands; Refugium; Taxon delimitation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; CHLOROPLAST; DISPERSAL; HERB; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYPLOIDY; REFUGIUM; TAXONOMY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SPAIN;

POLYPODIUM (PLANT); POLYPODIUM CAMBRICUM; POLYPODIUM MACARONESICUM;

EID: 84894418893     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boj.12140     Document Type: Article

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