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Contribution to the karyological knowledge of Odontites s.l. (Orobanchaceae) on the Iberian Peninsula and in Morocco

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Seventy-five populations corresponding to 12 taxa (species or subspecies) that include Odontites (9 taxa), Odontitella (1 taxon) and Macrosyringion (1 taxon) from the Iberian Peninsula, and Bartsiella (1 taxon) from Morocco have been studied. For the first time, a chromosome number is reported for the genus Bartsiella, monospecific and endemic to Morocco, B. rameauana (2n = 24), and Odontites kaliformis (2n = 22), O. viscosus subsp. asturicus (2n = 24) and O. viscosus subsp. granatensis (n = 11), endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. A new chromosome number is vreported for Macrosyringion longiflorum (2n = 22), Odontitella virgata (n = 12), O. viscosus subsp. australis (2n = 20, 22, 24) and O. recordonii (2n = 26). All the studied taxa were diploid (2x). In the case of O. vernus s.l., a tetraploid level (4x) was also found. This species in its wider sense includes O. vernus s.str. and O. vulgaris, which is often considered an independent species. Out of the forty-six populations of O. vernus s.l. studied, thirty were found to be tetraploid (2n = 4x = 40, O. vernus for many authors) and sixteen to be diploid (2n = 2x = 20, O. vulgaris for many authors).

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge C. Fabregat for their indications and help to collecting some species from East Iberian Peninsula, and P. Bariego, A. Gallego Carricajo, L.P. Gavilán Iglesias, N. López González, J. Lorite, V. Lucía, P. Marcos Villaverde, M. M. Martínez-Ortega and M. Santos-Vicente for their help in collecting material. This work has been financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (CGL2005-05471-C04-03 and CGL2008-02982-C03-02), by a grant of the Junta de Castilla y León (Luis Delgado, 1998–2001), by a fellowship of the Ministerio de Educación (Daniel Pinto Carrasco, AP2008-03528) and by the Junta de Castilla y León through the project SA 143A08.

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    Luis Delgado, Daniel Pinto Carrasco, Francisca Gallego Martín & Enrique Rico

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Delgado, L., Pinto Carrasco, D., Gallego Martín, F. et al. Contribution to the karyological knowledge of Odontites s.l. (Orobanchaceae) on the Iberian Peninsula and in Morocco. Folia Geobot 50, 63–74 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-015-9201-4

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