Discovering Karima (Euphorbiaceae), a New Crotonoid Genus from West Tropical Africa Long Hidden within Croton

Croton scarciesii (Euphorbiaceae-Crotonoideae), a rheophytic shrub from West Africa, is shown to have been misplaced in Croton for 120 years, having none of the diagnostic characters of that genus, but rather a set of characters present in no known genus of the family. Pollen analysis shows that the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2016-04, Vol.11 (4), p.e0152110-e0152110
Hauptverfasser:	Cheek, Martin, Challen, Gill, Lebbie, Aiah, Banks, Hannah, Barberá, Patricia, Riina, Ricarda
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Africa, Western Bayesian analysis Biodiversity Biology and Life Sciences Conservation Croton Diagnostic systems Earth Sciences Ecological monitoring Ecology and Environmental Sciences Environmental impact Euphorbiaceae Euphorbiaceae - classification Euphorbiaceae - genetics Flowers & plants Genera Genes, Plant Identification and classification Markov analysis Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Morphology New genera Phylogenetics Phylogeny Physiological aspects Pollen Pollen - ultrastructure Pollen analysis Research and Analysis Methods Studies Taxonomy
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