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- Orchid Research Newsletter issue 46 07/05 (Kew)
- Reclassification of the Pleurothallidinae
- The Cutting Edge Volume IX, Number 1, January 2002
- Phylogenetic relationships in Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae): combined evidence from nuclear and plastid DNA sequences - American Journal of Botany. 2001;88:2286-2308