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Cytotaxonomy of the genusPolystichum in the Western Himalayas

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Cytotaxonomical investigations on 11 species from the Western Himalayas show that 8 are diploid and the remaining tetraploid. The numbers for three species are new.P. prescottianum (2x) andP. thomsoni (4x), andP. stimulans (2x) andP. acanthophyllum (4x) are closely related but distinct species pairs.

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  1. Department of Botany, Panjab University, 160014, Chandigarh, India

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Khullar, S.P., Gupta, S.C. Cytotaxonomy of the genusPolystichum in the Western Himalayas. Pl Syst Evol 129, 269–275 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00982753

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