Chromosomal evolution inEpilobium sect.Epilobium (Onagraceae), III. |
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Authors: | Steven R. Seavey Peter H. Raven |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biology, Lewis & Clark College, 97219 Portland, OR, USA;(2) Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345 Tower Grove Ave., 63110 St. Louis, MO, USA |
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Abstract: | A cytological analysis of 22 experimental interspecific hybrids withinEpilobium sect.Epilobium, involving 15 taxa, has indicated that the generalized western North AmericaE. obcordatum has the BB chromosome arrangement. This strengthens greatly our earlier contention that BB is the original chromosome arrangement in the section. The very distinctive northwestern North AmericanE. luteum, only species in the section with cream-colored petals, has the CC arrangement, like the members ofHaussknecht'sAlpinae. This chromosome arrangement apparently originated in the North Pacific region in plants that were of normal stature. The North AmericanE. leptocarpum, which closely resembles the Japanese endemicE. fauriei and, like it, forms gemmae in the axils of the upper leaves, also resembles it in having the CC chromosome arrangement. The AsianE. platystigmatosum has a novel chromosome arrangement derived from BB, which we here designate the EE arrangement. |
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Keywords: | Onagraceae Epilobium sect.Epilobium Chromosomes reciprocal translocations |
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