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CCDBAngiospermsLeguminosaeMedicagoMedicago sativa subsp. sativa

8 chromosome counts in Medicago sativa subsp. sativa:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Medicago sativa subsp. sativa Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Small, E. & G. R. Bauchan. 1984. Chromosome numbers of the Medicago sativa complex in Turkey. Canad. J. Bot. 62: 749–752.
  Medicago sativa subsp. sativa Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Hollingsworth, P. M., R. J. Gornall & J. P. Bailey. 1992. Contribution to a cytological catalogue of the British and Irish flora, 2. Watsonia 19: 134–137.
  Medicago sativa subsp. sativa Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online KLIPHUIS, E. & J. H. Wieffering. 1979. In IOPB chromosome number reports LXIV. Taxon 28:398–400.
  Medicago sativa subsp. sativa Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Fernandes, A. & M. QUEIROS. 1978. Contribution à la connaissance cytotaxinomique des Spermatophyta du Portugal. IV. Leguminosee (Suppl. 3). Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2 52: 79–164.
!   Medicago sativa subsp. sativa Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN75-78 Fernandes
!   Medicago sativa subsp. sativa Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN75-78 Fernandes & Queiros 1978
!   Medicago sativa subsp. sativa Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN73-74 STRID, A. 1971. Chromosome numbers in some Albanian angiosperms. Bot. Notiser 124: 490-496.
!   Medicago sativa subsp. sativa Medicago sativa L.   32 Kumar, 1987 Strid, A. 1971 ; Fernandes, A. & Santos, M.F. 1971 ; Kliphuis, E. & Wieffering, J.H. 1979