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Peter Goldblatt, John C. Manning, Peter Bernhardt, Adaptive Radiation of Bee-Pollinated Gladiolus Species (Iridaceae) in Southern Africa, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 85, No. 3 (1998), pp. 492-517
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