title: The problem of vicarious and other categories of species of Euonymus L. (Celastraceae) from Northern Eurasia: The carpological approach
abstract: Among the species of Euonymus L. of the flora of Russia and adjacent territories, various scholars identify vicarious, endemic and relict species; their arguments and proofs are often incomplete and controversial. The present paper is dedicated to the critical analysis of all available data used for the substantiation of the status (category) of a given species. The authors employ both original and literature data on morphology, anatomy, chromosome numbers, DNA sequences, geography and ecology o
journal: Botanica Pacifica