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Leaf fossils show a 40-million-year history for the Australian tropical rainforest genus Megahertzia (Proteaceae)
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Carpenter, Raymond J., Rozefelds, Andrew C. (2023): Leaf fossils show a 40-million-year history for the Australian tropical rainforest genus Megahertzia (Proteaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 36 (4): 312-321, DOI: 10.1071/SB23005, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb23005
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