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Open Access Urticaceae for the non-specialist: Identification in the Flora Malesiana region, Indochina and Thailand

Urticaceae comprises five tribes. Most specimens can be identified to tribe, many to genus, by the nonspecialist. Keys are provided to the tribes and to the genera within each tribe, based on the more easily observable diagnostic characters. Additional notes to each genus are also given.

Keywords: DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS; FLORA MALESIANA; GENERA; INDOCHINA; KEYS; THAILAND; TRIBES; URTICACEAE

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 October 2009

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