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Description of 11 new Astiella (Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae) species endemic to Madagascar

  • 1. Plant Conservation and Population Biology, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, P.O. Box 2435, 3001 Leuven, Belgium. & Email: inge.groeninckx@kuleuven.be
  • 2. Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium. & Email: steven.janssens@botanicgardenmeise.be
  • 3. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. & Email: erik.smets@naturalis.nl
  • 4. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Sølvgade 83S, 1307 Copenhagen, Denmark. & Corresponding author: brecht.verstraete@snm.ku.dk

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Groeninckx, Inge, Janssens, Steven, Smets, Erik, Verstraete, Brecht (2017): Description of 11 new Astiella (Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae) species endemic to Madagascar. European Journal of Taxonomy 312: 1-40, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.312

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