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Image Title: The Yellow, Fourmerous, Tubular Flowers of Kalanchoe marmorata from Central East Africa
Image Credit: Frits Kindt, Henk't Hart
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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The yellow, fourmerous, tubular flowers of Kalanchoe marmorata from Central East Africa illustrate two aspects of convergent evolution in Crassulaceae: sympetaly and variation in number of floral parts (either a reduction or increase).

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Phylogenetic relationships in Crassulaceae inferred from chloroplast DNA restriction-site variation

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