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Endress, P.K., Friis, E.M. Rosids - Reproductive structures, fossil and extant, and their bearing on deep relationships: Introduction. Plant Syst. Evol. 260, 83–85 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-006-0438-5
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