Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 207-233

  Baker, William J ^a   Dransfield, John ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arecaceae; biodiversity; classification; next generation sequencing; Palmae; phylogenetics; phylogenomics; plant taxonomy; rainforest

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; EVERGREEN TREE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RAINFOREST; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

ARECACEAE; ARECOIDEAE; CORYPHOIDEAE;

EID: 84986880376     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boj.12401     Document Type: Review

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