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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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Autores principales: Cheek, Martin, Challen, Gill, Lebbie, Aiah, Banks, Hannah, Barberá, Patricia, Riina, Ricarda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4822767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27049519
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152110