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Issue: Vol. 630 No. 2: 14 Dec. 2023
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2023-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.630.2.8
Page range: 159-162
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Neotypification of the sweet tabaiba, Euphorbia balsamifera (Euphorbiaceae)

Servicio de Vida Silvestre y Red Natura 2000; Centro para la Investigación y la Experimentación Forestal (CIEF); Generalitat Valenciana
Real Jardín Botánico (RJB‐CSIC); Plaza de Murillo 2; Madrid 28014; Spain
Eudicots Canary islands Francis Masson holotype lectotype neotype original material William Aiton

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