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Systematic Studies In Myrtaceae Of The Greater And Lesser Antilles, Jonathan A. Flickinger

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The Myrtaceae, or myrtle family, are a group of flowering trees and shrubs represented in the Americas by over 2000 species of the predominantly Neotropical tribe Myrteae. Recent progress on the challenging systematics of the group has been achieved through molecular phylogenetics, but few of the almost 500 species endemic to the islands of the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean have been included in either phylogenetic or revisionary studies. The purpose of my dissertation is therefore to contribute to the description and phylogenetic classification of Antillean Myrtaceae. The first study describes Eugenia walkerae, a new species of …