P. Goldblatt

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Cape plants: A conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa
Plant Diversity of the Cape Region of Southern Africa
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Species richness of the Cape flora is hypothesized to be the result of geographic and parapatric radiation in an area with a mosaic of different habitats due to local soil, climate, and altitudinal differences that combine to produce steep ecological gradients.
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An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants
Recent cladistic analyses are revealing the phylogeny of flowering plants in increasing detail, and there is support for the monophyly of many major groups above the family level. With many elements…
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Cytology and the Phylogeny of Leguminosae.
The Iris Family: Natural History and Classification
Index to plant chromosome numbers 1986–1987
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Floristic diversity in the Cape Flora of South Africa
  • P. Goldblatt
  • Environmental Science
    Biodiversity & Conservation
  • 1 March 1997
Comprising a land area of ca 90000 km2, less than 4% of the total land area for the Southern African subcontinent, the Cape Floristic Province is one of the world's richest areas in terms of…
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African-South American freswater fish clades and continental drift: problems with a paradigm
Iridaceae ‘Out of Australasia’? Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Divergence Time Based on Plastid DNA Sequences
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Application of molecular clock techniques to the phylogeny indicates that the Iridaceae differentiated in the late Cretaceous and diverged from the next most closely related family, Doryanthaceae circa 82 mya, thus during the Campanian.
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Origin and diversification of the Greater Cape flora: ancient species repository, hot-bed of recent radiation, or both?
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