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Questioning the Cunonia in C. capensis

Supervisor: P Linder.

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Main Author: Kruger, Lynette
Other Authors: Linder, H Peter
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Biological Sciences 2018
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/27662 Questioning the Cunonia in C. capensis Kruger, Lynette Linder, H Peter Botany Systematics Supervisor: P Linder. All members of Cunonia, excluding C. capensis, occur on the island of New Caledonia. Dickison has repeatedly noted (1973, 1975, 1980, and 1984,) that evolutionary patterns may have led to incorrect systematic conclusions among many cunoniaceous genera, which are likely to generate incorrect systematic conclusions. For this reason, a study into the morphological characters defining C. capensis was undertaken. Although the possibility that the disjunct biogeographical pattern of C. capensis might be explained on the basis of taxonomic error was appealing, it was not conclusively supported from this investigation. Instead it was found that of the six characters supposed to distinguish Cunonia from Weinmannia, three agreed with the present position of C. capensis with Cunonia, whilst the other three placed C. capensis with Weinmannia. This study also served to highlight the need for further investigation and identification of characters which separate Cunonia and Weinmannia at the species level. 2018-03-15T07:39:59Z 2018-03-15T07:39:59Z 1995 Bachelor Thesis Honours BSc (Hons) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27662 eng application/pdf Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science University of Cape Town
spellingShingle Botany
Systematics
Kruger, Lynette
Questioning the Cunonia in C. capensis
thesis_degree_str Bachelor's / Honours
title Questioning the Cunonia in C. capensis
title_full Questioning the Cunonia in C. capensis
title_fullStr Questioning the Cunonia in C. capensis
title_full_unstemmed Questioning the Cunonia in C. capensis
title_short Questioning the Cunonia in C. capensis
title_sort questioning the cunonia in c capensis
topic Botany
Systematics
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27662
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