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CCDBAngiospermsAraliaceaeHederaHedera canariensis Willd.

6 chromosome counts in Hedera canariensis Willd.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Hedera canariensis Willd. Hedera canariensis Willd.   96 Flora Iberica Chromosome atlas of flowering plants. Darlintong, C. D. & A. P. Wylie.*(1955).
  Hedera canariensis Willd. Hedera canariensis Willd.   48 IPCN online Vargas, P., H. A. McALLISTER, C. Morton, S. L. Jury & M. J. Wilkinson. 1999. Polyploid speciation in Hedera (Araliaceae): phylogenetic and biogeographic insights based on chromosome counts and ITS sequences. Pl. Syst. Evol. 219: 165–179.
!   Hedera helix var. canariensis (Willd.) DC. Hedera canariensis Willd.   48 IPCN67-71 BORGEN, L. 1969. Chromosome numbers of vascular plants from the Canary Islands, with special reference to the occurence of polyploidy. Nytt Magasin for Botanik 16: 18-121.
  Hedera canariensis Willd. Hedera canariensis Willd.   96 Fedorov, 1974 Jacobsen 1954
!   Hedera canariensis Willd. Hedera canariensis Willd.   96 Darlington, 1955 Medit., Canaries
!   Hedera canariensis Willd. Hedera canariensis Willd.   48 C-values database Obermayer R, Greilhuber J. 1999. Genome size in Chinese soybean accessions - stable or variable? Annals of Botany 84: 259 - 262.