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Ephedra aurea (Ephedraceae), a new species from Sicily
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- 1. Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Catania, Via A. Longo 19, I-95125 Catania, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 5, I-90128 Palermo, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 26, I-90123 Palermo, Italy & giuseppe.siracusa@unict.it; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1989-6906
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Brullo, Salvatore, Brullo, Cristian, Cambria, Salvatore, Ilardi, Vincenzo, Siracusa, Giuseppe, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del (2022): Ephedra aurea (Ephedraceae), a new species from Sicily. Phytotaxa 530 (1): 1-20, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.530.1.1
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