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CCDBAngiospermsPoaceaeFestucaFestuca alpestris Roem. & Schult.

3 chromosome counts in Festuca alpestris Roem. & Schult.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Festuca alpestris Roem. & Schult. Festuca alpestris Roem. & Schult.   14 IPCN online `marda, P. & K. Kočí. 2003. Chromosome number variability in Central European members of the Festuca ovina and F. pallens groups (sect. Festuca). Folia Geobot. 38(1): 65–95.
  Festuca alpestris Roem. & Schult. Festuca alpestris Roem. & Schult.   14 IPCN online Smarda. 2005. Ploidy level variability of some central European fescues (Festuca subg.) (Festuca, Poaceae). Biologia (Bratislava) 60(1): 25–36.
!   Festuca alpestris Roem. & Schult. Festuca alpestris Roem. & Schult.   14 C-values database Smarda P, Bures P, Horova L, Foggi B, Rossi G. 2008. Genome size and GC content evolution of Festuca: Ancestral expansion and subsequent reduction. Annals of Botany 101: 421-433.