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CCDB → Angiosperms → Amaryllidaceae → Allium → Allium canadense L.

12 chromosome counts in Allium canadense L.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Allium canadense L. Allium canadense L.   28 IPCN online Cai, Q. & C. C. Chinnappa. 1987. Giemsa C-banded karyotypes of seven North American species of Allium. Amer. J. Bot. 74: 1087–1092.
  Allium canadense L. Allium canadense L.   28 IPCN online GERVAIS, C., R. Trahan & J. Gagnon. 1999. IOPB chromosome data 14. Newslett. Int. Organ. Pl. Biosyst. (Oslo) 30: 10–15.
  Allium canadense L. Allium canadense L.   28 IPCN online Ohri, D. & K. Pistrick. 2001. Phenology and genome size variation in Allium L.---a tight correlation?. Pl. Biol. (Stuttgart) 3: 654–660.
  Allium canadense L. Allium canadense L.   82 IPCN67-71 DORE, W.G. 1971. Canada Onion: Its method of spread into Canada. Naturaliste Canad. 98: 385-399.
  Allium canadense var. canadense Allium canadense L.   21,28 eFlora  
  Allium canadense L. Allium canadense L.   14, 21, 28 Fedorov, 1974 Ownbey M., Aase 1959'
  Allium canadense L. Allium canadense L.   16 Fedorov, 1974 La Cour (D. 1945)
!   Allium canadense L. Allium canadense L.   16 Darlington, 1955 La Cour 1945 *
!   Allium canadense L. Allium canadense L.   28 C-values database Ohri D, Fritsch R, Hanelt P. (pers. comm. 1996).
!   Allium canadense var. canadense Allium canadense L.   28, 21 Cave1956supp Ownbey & Aase 1955
!   Allium canadense L. Allium canadense L.   14 Cave1956supp Ownbey & Aase 1955
!   Allium canadense None Allium canadense L.   14, 28 Cave1956supp Ownbey & Aase 1955