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16 chromosome counts in Actinidia chinensis Planch.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Actinidia chinensis Planch. Actinidia chinensis Planch.   58 IPCN online Ching, R. C. & C. F. Zhang. 1983. New ferns of Zhejiang Province. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(3): 1–55.
  Actinidia chinensis Planch. Actinidia chinensis Planch. 29   IPCN online McNeilage, M. A. & J. A. Considine. 1989. Chromosome studies in some Actinidia taxa and implications for breeding. New Zealand J. Bot. 27: 71–81.
  Actinidia chinensis Planch. Actinidia chinensis Planch.   116 IPCN online Xiong, Z. t., R. h. Huang, P. Yuan & X. w. Wu. 1993. Cytological observation on the meiosis of PMC and pollen development of tetraploid in Actinidia chinensis. Guihaia 13: 139–143.
  Actinidia chinensis Planch. Actinidia chinensis Planch.   58 IPCN online Chen, R. y. 1993. (editor), Chromosome Atlas of Chinese Fruit Trees and Their Close Wild Relatives. Chromosome Atlas Chin. Princ. Econ. Pl. 1.
  Actinidia chinensis Planch. Actinidia chinensis Planch.   80 IPCN online Solovyeva, L. V. 1999. Karyological peculiarities and chromosome numbers of the species of genus Actinidia Lindl. Citologija 41(12): 1084.
  Actinidia chinensis Planch. Actinidia chinensis Planch.   58, 116 IPCN online He, Z. c. 2005. The cytology of Actinidia, Saurauia and Clematoclethra (Actinidiaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 147: 369–374.
  Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis Actinidia chinensis Planch.   58 IPCN online Beuzenberg, E. J. & J. B. Hair. 1983. Contributions to a chromosome atlas of the New Zealand flora - 25 miscellaneous species. New Zealand J. Bot. 21: 13–20.
  Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis Actinidia chinensis Planch.   58 IPCN online Deng, X. x. & H. m. Sen. 1986. Studies on the chromosome numbers of Actinidia. Acta Hort. Sin. 13: 80.
  Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis Actinidia chinensis Planch.   58 IPCN online Xiong, Z. T., R. H. Huang & X. W. Wu. 1985. Observations on the chromosome numbers of four species of Actinidia. J. Wuhan Bot. Res. 3(3): 219–224.
  Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis Actinidia chinensis Planch.   116 IPCN online Xiong, Z. t. 1992. Chromosome studies on cultivated Chinese gooseberry. Guihaia 12(1): 83–87.
  Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis Actinidia chinensis Planch.   58, 116 IPCN online Yan, G., J. Yao, A. R. Ferguson, M. A. McNeilage, A. G. Seal & B. G. Murray. 1997. New reports of chromosome numbers in Actinidia (Actinidiaceae). New Zealand J. Bot. 35: 181–186.
  Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis Actinidia chinensis Planch.   116 IPCN online Xiong, Z. t., R. h. Huang & X. w. Wu. 1998. Chromosome numbers of several strains of Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis. J. Wuhan Bot. Res. 16(4): 302–304.
!   Actinidia chinensis Planch. Actinidia chinensis Planch.   116,174,58 eFlora  
!   Actinidia chinensis Planch. Actinidia chinensis Planch.   c.116 Darlington, 1955 Bowden 1940b
!   Actinidia chinensis Planch. Actinidia chinensis Planch.   c.160 Darlington, 1955 Rizet 1945
  Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis Actinidia chinensis Planch.   58 C-values database Hopping ME. 1994. Flow cytometric analysis of Actinidia species. New Zealand Journal of Botany 32: 85-93.