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March 10, 2015

After 60 million years apart, two fern genera form hybrid in the mountains of France
Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 10, 2015
In an article published in the March 2015 issue of The American Naturalist, a team of researchers report on a fern from the French Pyrenees that is a recently formed intergeneric hybrid between parental lineages that diverged from each other approximately 60 million years ago. The hybrid fern - + Cystocarpium roskamianum - was found growing wild in the mountains of France and is sterile, but can reproduce itself vegetatively and grows well in cultivation. Rothfels et al.'s finding that two f ... read more

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