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CCDB → Angiosperms → Campanulaceae → Lobelia → Lobelia cardinalis L.

14 chromosome counts in Lobelia cardinalis L.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L. 7+1(1) 14(1) Asteracea Smith, E.. B. 1969b Arkansas Acad. Sci. Proc.
  Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L. 7   IPCN online Freeman, C. C. & R. E. Brooks. 1988. Documented plant chromosome numbers 1988: 1. Chromosome counts for North American plants -- I. Sida 13: 241–250.
  Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L.   14 IPCN online Turner, B. L. & Z. Zhao. 1992. Documented chromosome numbers 1992: 2. Miscellaneous U.S.A. and Mexican species, mostly Asteraceae. Sida 15: 147–150.
  Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L. 7   IPCN online FAASEN, P. V. & P. NADEAU. 1976. In IOPB chromosome number reports LI. Taxon 25: 155–164.
!   Lobelia fulgens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Lobelia cardinalis L.   14 IPCN online Saito, Y., G. Kokubugata & M. Möller. 2004. Evidence for the correlation between rDNA variation and satellite heteromorphy in somatic chromosome complements of Lobelia fulgens 'Queen Victoria' (subfamily Lobelioideae, family Campanulaceae). Ann. Tsukuba Bot. Gard. 23: 5–12.
  Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L. 7   IPCN75-78 Faasen & Nadeau 1976
!   Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L.   14 Kumar, 1987 Vilmorin, R. de & Simonet, M. 1927b ; Sugiura, T. 1936a ; Bowden, W.M. 1940a, 1945a, 1958, 1960c
  Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L.   14 Fedorov, 1974 Vilmorin, Simonet 1927b
  Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L.   14 Fedorov, 1974 Sugiura 1936a
  Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L.   14 Fedorov, 1974 Bowden 1940a, 1945a, 1958, 1960c wol
!   Lobelia cardinalis L. Lobelia cardinalis L.   14 Darlington, 1955 Vilmorin & S. 1927b H
!   Lobelia ramosa Burb. Lobelia cardinalis L.   18 Darlington, 1955 Sugiura 1936a
!   Lobelia cardinalis None Lobelia cardinalis L.   14 Cave1958 Bowden 1958
!   Lobelia cardinalis None Lobelia cardinalis L.   14 Cave1959 Bowden 1959d