Population structure in the endangered Mauna Loa silversword, Argyroxiphium kauense (Asteraceae), and its bearing on

E A Friar1, D L Boose, T LaDoux

  • 1Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. elizabeth.friar@cgu.edu

Molecular Ecology
|July 27, 2001
PubMed

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