New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Contributions to a chromosome atlas of the New Zealand flora—32.
Raoulia (Inuleae-Compositae (Asteraceae))

MURRAY I. DAWSON

Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
P.O. Box 69, Lincoln
Canterbury, New Zealand

JOSEPHINE M. WARD

Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand

B. E. GROVES*
J. B. HAIR^¥

Botany Division
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Christchurch, New Zealand
*Present address: Lincoln High School, 134 North
Belt, Lincoln, New Zealand,
^¥deceased 22 February 1979

Abstract Documented somatic chromosome numbers are provided for 28 taxa in Raoulia. Somatic chromosome numbers for 15 putative hybrid combinations are also documented. Ploidy levels range from 2n = 2x2 = 28 to 2n = 8x2 =112.

Keywords chromosome numbers; Inuleae; Asteraceae; Compositae; Raoulia; polyploidy; hybrids; New Zealand flora

B92023 ; Received 22 May 1992; accepted 29 January 1993
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1993, Vol. 31: 97-106
0O28-825X/93/3101-OO97 $2.50/0 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 1993

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