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Liu, H. and S. Koptur. 2003.  Breeding System and Pollination of a Narrowly Endemic Herb of the Lower Florida Keys: Impacts of the Urban Wildland Interface.  American Journal of Botany  90: 1180-1187. [PDF]

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