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CCDB → Angiosperms → Myrtaceae → Myrtus → Myrtus communis L.

20 chromosome counts in Myrtus communis L.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L. 11   CHROBASE GRECO R. - 1929. Notizie preliminari sull'embriologia e la cariologia del Myrtus communis L.. N. Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s. , 36: 57-59.
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 Flora Iberica Chromosome atlas of flowering plants. Darlintong, C. D. & A. P. Wylie.*(1955).
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 Flora Iberica Chromosome numbers of vascular plants from Austria, Mallorca and Yugoslavia. Nilsson, O. & P. Lassen.Bot. Not.124: 270-276(1971).
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 IPCN65 Mousel 1965
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L. 11   IPCN online Vijayakumar, N. & D. Subramanian. 1985. Cytotaxonomical studies in south Indian Myrtaceae. Cytologia 50: 513–520.
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 IPCN online Queirós, M. 1991. Números cromossómicos para a flora Portuguesa. 104--105. Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2 64: 135–142.
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 IPCN75-78 Natarajan 1977
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 IPCN73-74 NILSSON, Q., & P. LASSEN. 1971. Chromosome numbers of vascular pla from Austria, Mallorca and Yugoslav1a. Bot. Not1ser 124: 270-276. I
!   Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 Kumar, 1987 Greco, R. 1929; Delay, C. 1947 Roy, R.P. & Jha, R. P. 1962b; Mo- usse!, B. 1965; Natarajan, G. 1978
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 Fedorov, 1974 Greco 1929
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 Fedorov, 1974 Delay 1947
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 Fedorov, 1974 Roy R. P., J'ha 1962
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 Fedorov, 1974 Moussel 1965
!   Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 Darlington, 1955 Greco 1929
!   Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L. 11   Cave1962 Roy & Jha 1962
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L. 11   CromoCat 2015 Vijayakumar, N. & D. Subramanian (1985). Cytotaxonomical studies in south Indian Myrtaceae Cytologia 50: 513–520
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 CromoCat 2015 Bernardello, L. M., Stiefkens, L. B. & Piovano, M. A. (1990). Números cromosómicos en dicotiledóneas Argentinas. Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 26: 149-157.
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 CromoCat 2015 Natarajan, G. (1978b). Reports [In Löve, A. (ed.), IOPB chromosome numbers reports LXII]. Taxon 27(5/6): 526-531.
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 CromoCat 2015 Nilsson, Ö. & P. Lassen. (1971). Chromosome numbers of vascular plants from Austria, Mallorca and Yugoslavia. Bot. Not. 124(2): 270-276.
  Myrtus communis L. Myrtus communis L.   22 CromoCat 2015 Queirós, M. (1991a). Números cromossómicos para a flora portuguesa. 104-115. Bol. Soc. Brot. 64: 135-142.