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Phylogeny of Selaginellaceae: There is value in morphology after all!
American journal of botany - 1 Dec 2016
Weststrand Stina, Korall Petra
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY: The cosmopolitan lycophyte family Selaginellaceae, dating back to the Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous, is notorious for its many species with a seemingly undifferentiated gross morphology. This morphological stasis has for a long time hampered our understanding of the evolutionary history of the single genus Selaginella. Here we present a large-scale phylogenetic analysis of Selaginella,...
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