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Peter Goldblatt, Peter Bernhardt, John C. Manning, Adaptive Radiation of Pollination Mechanisms in Ixia (Iridaceae: Crocoideae), Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 87, No. 4 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 564-577
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