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The karyotype ofStreptolirion volubile edgeworth (Commelinaceae) from Japan

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A population ofStreptolirion volubile subsp.volubile from Japan is found to have the chromosome number 2n=10 and a karyotype very different from that previously reported for Indian plants of this taxon.

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  1. Department of Biology, Iwate University, 020, Morioka

    Yutaka Suda & Robert B. Faden

  2. Department of Botany, Natioaal Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 20560, Washington, D.C., USA

    Yutaka Suda & Robert B. Faden

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Suda, Y., Faden, R.B. The karyotype ofStreptolirion volubile edgeworth (Commelinaceae) from Japan. Bot Mag Tokyo 93, 355–359 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488739

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