High-latitude Tertiary Migrations of an Exclusively Tropical Clade: Evidence from Malpighiaceae
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*Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan Herbarium, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108-2287, U.S.A.; yDepartment of Botany, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118, U.S.A.; zFlorida Museum of Natural History, Dickinson Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, U.S.A.; and §Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A.
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