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A scanning electron microscope survey of the epidermis of East African grasses

Title

A scanning electron microscope survey of the epidermis of East African grasses V ; and, West African supplement

Title Variants

Alternative: West African supplement to scanning electron microscope survey of the epidermis of East African grasses

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Series: Smithsonian contributions to botany, no. 67

By

Palmer, Patricia G.

Gerbeth-Jones, Susan.

Type

Book

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Published material

Publication info

Washington, D.C, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988

Notes

Shipping list no.: 88-662-P.

Includes [120] p. of plates.

In developing a reference collection as a standard for using fossil grass cuticles as a paleoecological tool, we have examined leaf epidermal features of grasses with SEM. Descriptions (abaxial and adaxial surfaces) of 47 East African species are presented, comprising two tribes, Andropogoneae and Maydeae. Representative species of 13 genera found in tropical West Africa but not East Africa are described in the supplement.