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CCDBAngiospermsPoaceaeFestucaFestuca saxatilis Schur

5 chromosome counts in Festuca saxatilis Schur:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Festuca saxatilis Schur Festuca rupicola Heuff.   42 Slovakia Database Krahulec F., 1987: Festuca saxatilis – a new species of the Czechoslovak flora. - Preslia 59: 273-276.
  Festuca saxatilis Schur Festuca rupicola Heuff.   42 IPCN online  
  Festuca saxatilis Schur Festuca rupicola Heuff.   42 IPCN online Krahulcová, A. 1987. In F. Krahwec, Festuca saxatilis -- a new species of the Czechoslovak flora. Preslia 59: 273–276.
  Festuca saxatilis Schur Festuca rupicola Heuff.   42 IPCN online Alexeev, E. B., A. P. Sokolovskaya & N. S. Probatova. 1988. Taxonomy, distribution and chromosome numbers of fescues (Festuca L., Poaceae) in the flora of the USSR. 3. The section Festuca: F. tschujensis--F. beckeri. Bjull. Moskovsk. Obač. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. 93: 90–99.
!   Festuca saxatilis Schur Festuca rupicola Heuff.   42 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.