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Revision of the fern family Marattiaceae in the Seychelles with two new species and a discussion of the African Ptisana fraxinea complex.

  • 1. Evolutionary Biology & Ecology - CP 160/12, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Av. F. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. & Plant Conservation Action group (PCA), P.O. Box 392, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles.
  • 2. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7205 'Origine, Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité', Herbier national, 16 rue Buffon, CP 39, F-75231 Paris cedex, France, E-mail: rouhan@mnhn.fr
  • 3. Plant Conservation Action group (PCA), P.O. Box 392, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles.
  • 4. Plant Conservation Action group (PCA), P.O. Box 392, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles. & Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 720, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles.
  • 5. Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, U.K, E-mail: m.christenhusz@kew.org

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Senterre, Bruno, Rouhan, Germinal, Fabre, Isabelle, Morel, Charles, Christenhusz, Maarten J.M. (2014): Revision of the fern family Marattiaceae in the Seychelles with two new species and a discussion of the African Ptisana fraxinea complex. Phytotaxa 158 (1): 57-75, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.158.1.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.158.1.4

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