Phylogeny of Salicornioideae (Chenopodiaceae): diversification, biogeography, and evolutionary trends in leaf and flower morphology

Chenopodiaceae‐Salicornioideae (14–16 gen./c. 90 spp.) are distributed worldwide in coastal and inland saline habitats. Most of them are easy to recognize by their succulent‐articulated stem with strongly reduced leaves and by flowers aggregated in dense, thick spike‐shaped thyrses. ITS and the atpB...

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Main Authors: Kadereit, G., Mucina, Ladislav, Freitag, H.
Format: Journal Article
Published: International Association for Plant Taxonomy 2006
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24387