2018/09/05 by Francesco Roma‐Marzio, Dörte Harpke, Lorenzo Peruzzi · 2 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Biology #Botany #Crocus #Genetics #Iridaceae #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions #Pollen #Saffron Plant Research Studies #Stamen #Tepal #White (mutation) #lilac
paper · doi:10.3897/italianbotanist.6.28729
openalex publication_date 2018/09/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The Italian endemic Crocusbiflorus usually shows white or lilac flowers with three-to-five striking violet longitudinal stripes on the outer tepals, but unstriped plants were recorded in the past. These plants were originally described as C.annulatussubvar.estriatus, and subsequently recombined as a variety of C.biflorus . The rediscovery of such plants in Toscana gave us the opportunity to clarify their systematic relationships, so that we typified the name, and performed karyological and ITS analyses. These plants share the same chromosome number (2 n = 2 x = 8) and ITS sequence with C.biflorus s. str.