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CCDB → Angiosperms → Dioscoreaceae → Dioscorea → Dioscorea nipponica Makino

8 chromosome counts in Dioscorea nipponica Makino:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Dioscorea nipponica Makino Dioscorea nipponica Makino   20 IAPT/IOPB IAPT/IOPB Chromosome Data 5
  Dioscorea nipponica Makino Dioscorea nipponica Makino   56 IPCN online Starodubtsev, V. N. 1985. Chromosome numbers in the representatives of some families from the Soviet Far East. Bot. Zhurn. SSSR 70(2): 275–277. (In Russian).
  Dioscorea nipponica Makino Dioscorea nipponica Makino   20 IPCN online Probatova, N. S. & A. P. Sokolovskaya. 1983a. New chromosome numbers for vascular plants from the islands of Peter the Great Bay (Primorye Territory). Bot. Zhurn. SSSR 68 (12): 1655–1662.
  Dioscorea nipponica Makino Dioscorea nipponica Makino   20 IPCN online Rudyka, E. G. 1995. Chromosome numbers in vascular plants from the southern part of the Russian Far East. Bot. Žhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 80(2): 87–90.
  Dioscorea nipponica Makino Dioscorea nipponica Makino 10 20 IPCN online Kiangsu Institute Of Botany. 1976. Studies on Chinese Dioscorea Sect. Stenophora Pr. 6c Burk. and their chromosome numbers. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 14: 65–72.
  Dioscorea nipponica Makino Dioscorea nipponica Makino   20 IPCN online Rudyka, E. G. 1998. Chromosome numbers of the monocotyledonous plants of the flora of Russian Far East. Pages 135--137 in Rasteniya v Mussonnom Klimate. Vladivostok.
  Dioscorea nipponica Makino Dioscorea nipponica Makino   20 IPCN online Shatalova, S. A. 2000. Chromosome numbers in vascular plants of the Primorsky territory. Bot. Žhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 85(1): 152–156.
!   Dioscorea nipponica var. rosthornii (Diels) Prain & Burkill Dioscorea nipponica Makino 20 40 IPCN online Kiangsu Institute Of Botany. 1976. Studies on Chinese Dioscorea Sect. Stenophora Pr. 6c Burk. and their chromosome numbers. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 14: 65–72.