How many species of seed plants are there?
Recent estimates of the number of described species of seed plant have varied by as much as 62%. The underlying methodology of these estimates is characterised and discussed. We present a revised figure for the number of seed plants based on estimating rates of synonymy in a sample of recently monog...
Main Authors: | Scotland, R, Wortley, A |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2003
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