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CCDBAngiospermsTheaceaeCamelliaCamellia sasanqua Thunb.

9 chromosome counts in Camellia sasanqua Thunb.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Camellia sasanqua Thunb.   90 IPCN online Gu, Z. j., L. f. Xia, L. s. Xie & K. Kondo. 1988. Report on the chromosome numbers of some species of Camellia in China. Acta Bot. Yunnan. 10: 291–296.
  Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Camellia sasanqua Thunb.   90 IPCN online Zhuang, R. L. & R. X. Dong. 1984. Preliminary observation on pollen size, variation, and chromosome number of major species of Camellia oleosa. Forest Sci. Technol. (3): 15–17. (In Chinese).
  Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Camellia sasanqua Thunb. 45   IPCN online Uchino, A. & T. Hayafuchi. 1983. Maintenance of asynapsis in plants produced vegetatively from an asynaptic plant of the Scilla scilloides complex. Mem. Fac. Gen. Educ. Kumamoto Univ., Ser. Nat. Sci. 18: 37–46.
  Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Camellia sasanqua Thunb.   90 IPCN online Gu, Z. j., L. f. Xia, L. b. Xie & K. Kondo. 1989. Report of the chromosome numbers of some species of Camellia in China. Amer. Camellia Yearb. 1989: 19–22.
  Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Camellia sasanqua Thunb. 45   IPCN online Uemoto, S., T. Tanaka & K. Fujieda. 1980. Cytogenetic studies on the origin of Camellia vernalis. 1. On the meiotic chromosomes in some related Camellia forms in Hirado Island. J. Jap. Soc. Hort. Sci. 48: 475–482.
  Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Camellia sasanqua Thunb. 45,60,75 80,106,120 IPCN online Kondo, K. 1977. Chromosome numbers in the genus Camellia. Biotropica 9: 86–94.
  Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Camellia sasanqua Thunb.   90 IPCN online Tanaka, T., T. Mizutani, M. Shibata, N. Tanikawa & C. R. Parks. 2005. Cytogenetic studies on the origin of Camellia @xvernalis. V. Estimation of the seed parent of C. @xvernalis that evolved about 400 years ago by cpDNA analysis. J. Jap. Soc. Hort. Sci. 74: 464–468.
!   Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Camellia sasanqua Thunb. 45   IPCN75-78 Kondo 1977a
!   Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Camellia sasanqua Thunb.   90 Darlington, 1955