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Lupinus pilosus Murr. andL. palaestinus Boiss., are both East Mediterranean annuals, greatly resemble each other in morphology, and have the same chromosome number (2n = 42). Some fertile hybrids can be formed by artificial hybridization or under unusual habitat conditions. Isolation in nature between the species is, however, maintained by prevalent selfing, partial reproductive barriers and genic imbalance, together with differences in ecological requirements. It is suggested that this speciation pattern which includes little morphological and hardly any chromosomal divergence might have occurred in other cases of edaphic vicariants too.
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Pazy, B., Plitmann, U. & Heyn, C.C. Genetic relationships betweenLupinus pilosus andL. palaestinus (Fabaceae). Pl Syst Evol 137, 39–44 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00983202
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