FLORA OF THE GUAYANA HIGHLAND: ENDEMICITY OF THE GENERIC FLORA OF THE SUMMITS OF THE VENEZUELA TEPUIS
Summary The summit flora of the table mountains of Venezuela would appear to be represented by a relatively small endemic generic element with an intermixture of nonendemic generic elements, originating and immigrating centripetally at different times and from different dispersals or origins (West G...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley
1979
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1219557 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1219557 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1219557 |
Summary: | Summary The summit flora of the table mountains of Venezuela would appear to be represented by a relatively small endemic generic element with an intermixture of nonendemic generic elements, originating and immigrating centripetally at different times and from different dispersals or origins (West Gondwanaland‐American, Australasian/Malaysian‐American, Australasia‐Antarctica‐American), the whole modified by evolution and differentiation on newly available areas of the table mountains during their erosional history and derivation from lowland peripheral sources during Pleistocene and post‐Pleistocene times. |
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