http://www.botany2002.org/section11/abstracts/4.shtml
http://www.jaknouse.athens.oh.us/ferns/g_azol.html
It's not clear whether Aa. microphylla and mexicana represent one or
two hybridisation events. (Or even zero, depending on whether you accept the
position given in the first link,)
P van Rijckevorsel writes
I am not much on ferns, but I don't see anything on hybrids in these
links?
Stewart Robert Hinsley schreef in
From the first link
"we suggest the Azolla microphylla - mexicana lineage arose through
hybridization and homoploid speciation involving A. caroliniana and A.
filiculoides."
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Stewart Robert Hinsley
+ + +
Ah yes, I must have fallen prey to the modern disease of being unable to
read text unless this is accompanied by a phylogenetic tree ;-)
PvR