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- Title
Rediscovery of Crocus biflorus var. estriatus (Iridaceae) and its taxonomic characterisation.
- Authors
Roma-Marzio, Francesco; Harpke, Doerte; Peruzzi, Lorenzo
- Abstract
The Italian endemic Crocus biflorus usually shows white or lilac flowers with three-to-five striking violet longitudinal stripes on the outer tepals, but unstriped plants were recorded in the past. These plants were originally described as C. annulatus subvar. estriatus, and subsequently recombined as a variety of C. biflorus. The rediscovery of such plants in Toscana gave us the opportunity to clarify their systematic relationships, so that we typified the name, and performed karyological and ITS analyses. These plants share the same chromosome number (2n = 2x = 8) and ITS sequence with C. biflorus s. str.
- Subjects
IRIDACEAE; PLANT chromosome numbers; PLANT classification; ENDEMIC plants; CROCUSES
- Publication
Italian Botanist, 2018, Issue 6, p23
- ISSN
2531-4033
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/italianbotanist.6.28729