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CCDB → Angiosperms → Colchicaceae → Colchicum → Colchicum speciosum Steven

10 chromosome counts in Colchicum speciosum Steven:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Colchicum speciosum Steven Colchicum speciosum Steven   38 IAPT/IOPB IAPT/IOPB Chromosome Data 7
!   Colchicum speciosum Steven Colchicum speciosum Steven   38 Flora Iberica Chromosome atlas of flowering plants. Darlintong, C. D. & A. P. Wylie.*(1955).
  Colchicum speciosum Steven Colchicum speciosum Steven   38 IPCN online Bokeriya, M. R. 1988. Chromosome numbers in some members of genera Colchicum and Merendera (Melanthiaceae) from the Caucasus. Bot. Žhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 73: 453–454.
  Colchicum speciosum Steven Colchicum speciosum Steven   38 IPCN online Persson, K. 1999. The genus Colchicum in Turkey. II. Revision of the large-leaved autumnal species. Edinburgh J. Bot. 56: 103–142.
  Colchicum speciosum Steven Colchicum speciosum Steven   38, 40, 42 Chacón, 2014 Feinbrun 1958, Bokeriya 1988; Persson 1999
  Colchicum bornmuelleri Freyn Colchicum speciosum Steven   42 Fedorov, 1974 Levan 1940a
!   Colchicum speciosum Steven Colchicum speciosum Steven   38 Darlington, 1955  
!   Colchicum giganteum S. Arn. Colchicum speciosum Steven   40 Darlington, 1955  
!   Colchicum bornmuelleri Freyn Colchicum speciosum Steven   42 Darlington, 1955  
!   Colchicum latifolium Griseb. Colchicum speciosum Steven   54 Darlington, 1955