Cover Illustration: Winged fruits of modern and fossil Loxopterygium. Two modern species (top row) from seasonally dry tropical forests in South America are distinguished in fruit by the length of the pedicel. A new fossil species of
Loxopterygium fruit from Miocene inter-Andean basins of Ecuador is morphologically similar to both modern species.
For the full article, see Burnham and Carranco, p. 1767. Photo credit: Robyn J. Burnham.
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