Book ID: 100412
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
Almeda, Frank and Orbelia R. Robinson
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                            
                                                                 Systematics and Phylogeny of Siphanthera (Melastomataceae). 2011. (Systematic Botany Monographs, 93). illus. maps. 101 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    This study represents the first attempt to evaluate generic and specieslimits in the South American genus Siphanthera by incorporating newinformation from macromorphology, pollen and seed micromorphology,chromosome cytology, a cladistic analysis, and distributional information. Available data provide a rationale for recognizing Siphanthera as a monophyletic genus of fifteen species with a bicentricdistribution centered in the Brazilian Planalto,  and the GuayanaHighlands and contiguous areas.