Phylogenetics of African rinorea (violaceae): Elucidating infrageneric relationships using plastid and nuclear DNA sequences

Systematic Botany

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 174-184

  Van Velzen, Robin ^a,d   Wahlert, Gregory A ^b   Sosef, Marc S M ^a,e   Onstein, Renske E ^c   Bakker, Freek T ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biogeography; character evolution; chloroplast DNA; embryo defective 2765; Madagascar; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

PAPILIONOIDEA; RINOREA; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 84923348854     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364415X686486     Document Type: Article

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