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CCDB → Angiosperms → Aquifoliaceae → Ilex → Ilex aquifolium L.

22 chromosome counts in Ilex aquifolium L.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
!   Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 British Isles cytology Maude, P.F. New Phytol. 38: 1-31 (1939)
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 Flora Iberica Cytotaxonomy of spanish plants. IV.-Dicotyledons: Caesalpinacea-Asteracea. Lve, A. & E. Kjellqvist.Lagascalia4(2): 153-211(1974).
!   Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 flora of NW Europe http://wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=3088
!   Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 Flora Europaea Maude, 1940
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L. 20   IPCN online Ruíz de Clavijo, E. 1991. Notas cariológicas sobre algunas especies norteafricanas. Acta Bot. Malac. 16: 449–454.
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L. 20   IPCN online Mehra, P. N. 1976. Cytology of Himalayan Hardwoods. Sree Saraswaty Press, Calcutta.
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 IPCN73-74 LOEVE, A., & E. KJELLQVIST. 1974. Cytotaxonomy of Spanish plants. IV. Dicotyledons: Caesalpiniaceae- Asteraceae. Lagascalia 4: 153-211.
!   Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 Kumar, 1987 Maude; P.F. 1939, 1940
!   Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   c.46 Kumar, 1987 Wulff, H.D. 1939a
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 Fedorov, 1974 Maude 1939, 1940
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   ~46 Fedorov, 1974 Wulff 1939a
!   Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 Darlington, 1955  
!   Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 C-values database Mowforth MA.1986. Variation in nuclear DNA amounts in flowering plants: an ecological analysis. PhD. Thesis, University of Sheffield. Specific reference for Poa annua in Mowforth MA and Grime JP. 1989. Intra-Population Variation in Nuclear DNA Amount
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L. 20   CromoCat 2015 Mehra, P. N. (1976). Cytology of Himalayan Hardwoods Sree Saraswaty Press Calcuta
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L. 20   CromoCat 2015 Ruíz de Clavijo Jiménez, E. (1991). Notas cariológicas sobre algunas especies norteafricanas Acta Botanica Malacitana 16: 449-454
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 CromoCat 2015 Delay, C. (1947b). Recherches sur la structure des noyaux quiescents chez les Phanérogames. Rev. Cytol. et Cytophysiol. Vég. 10(1-4): 103-229.
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 CromoCat 2015 Frierson, J. L. (1960). Cytotaxonomic study of selected indigenous and introduced species of the genus Ilex, commonly grown in United States. Tesis Univ. South Carolina
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 CromoCat 2015 Löve, A. & Kjellqvist, E. (1974b). Cytotaxonomy of Spanish plants. IV.-Dicotyledons: Caesalpinaceae-Asteraceae. Lagascalia 4(2): 153-211.
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 CromoCat 2015 Maude, P. F. (1939). The Merton catalogue. A list of the chromosome numerals of species of British flowering plants. New Phytol. 38: 1-31.
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   40 CromoCat 2015 Maude, P. F. (1940). Chromosome numbers in some British plants. New Phytol. 39: 17-32.
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   46 CromoCat 2015 Castroviejo & al. (2003). Flora Iberica (vol. I-VIII, X, XIV) Publicaciones del CSIC Madrid
  Ilex aquifolium L. Ilex aquifolium L.   c.46 CromoCat 2015 Wulff, H. D. (1939a). Chromosomenstudien an der schleswig-holsteinischen Angiospermen-Flora. III. Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 57: 84-91.