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.