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CCDB → Angiosperms → Caryophyllaceae → Cerastium → Cerastium vulgatum L.

11 chromosome counts in Cerastium vulgatum L.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
!   Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.   144 Flora Iberica The incidence of polyploidy in the Caryophyllaceae of Britain and of Portugal. Blackburn, K. B. & J. K. Morton.New Phytol.56: 344-351(1957).
  Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. 72   IPCN online Mulligan, G. A. 1984. Chromosome numbers of some plants native and naturalized in Canada. Naturaliste Canad. 111: 447–449.
  Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.   144 IPCN online Pogan, E. 1980. Further studies in chromosome numbers of Polish Angiosperms. Acta Biol. Cracov., Ser. Bot. 22: 129–153.
!   Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. ca.68   IPCN online Ward, D. E. 1983. Chromosome counts from New Mexico and southern Colorado. Phytologia 54: 302–309.
!   Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.   36 Kumar, 1987 Tomkins, D.J. & Grant, W.F. 1978
!   Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.   72, 126, 144, 180 Kumar, 1987 Blackburn, K.B. & Morton, J.K. 1957 ; Diers, L. 1961
!   Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.   136 Kumar, 1987 Brett, O.E. 1950
!   Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.   137-147 Kumar, 1987 Brett, O.E. 1955
!   Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.   140, c.144 Kumar, 1987 Taylor, R.L. & Mulligan, G.A. 1968
!   Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.   144 Kumar, 1987 Heiser, C.B. & Whitaker, T.W. 1948
!   Cerastium vulgatum L. Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.   72, 126 ,144, 180 Cave1957 Blackburn & Morton