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Contribution to the caryological study of the African grass Aristida rhiniochloa Hochst., based on specimens from the Southern Hemisphere

Pierre Bourreil, Alain Geslot, Monique Gorlier, Bernard de Winter
Bothalia | Vol 10, No 4 | a1560 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/abc.v10i4.1560 | © 1972 Pierre Bourreil, Alain Geslot, Monique Gorlier, Bernard de Winter | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 15 November 1972 | Published: 17 November 1972

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Pierre Bourreil, Universite de Provence (Centre de St. Jerome), Marseille, France
Alain Geslot, Universite de Provence (Centre de St. Jerome), Marseille, France
Monique Gorlier, Universite de Provence (Centre de St. Jerome), Marseille, France
Bernard de Winter, Botanical Research Institute, South Africa

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Abstract

The chromosome number established for Aristida rhiniochloa Hochst. by the study of material from three localities in the Southern Hemisphere confirms the results obtained on material from North Africa. The haploid complement (n = 11) and the diploid number (2n = 22) of this species conform to the basic number x = 11 typical for the Aristideae. It is shown that the caryotype of this species is sub-symmetrical. Preliminary studies o f material from two localities show that the meiotic behaviour conforms to that found in the diploid species with n bivalents.


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