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Issue: Vol. 687 No. 1: 13 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-13
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.687.1.9
Page range: 115-125
Abstract views: 148
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Confirmation of Allium ruhmerianum Asch. ex E.A.Durand et Barratte as a member of the sect. Molium

Botanical Garden, University of Osnabrueck, Albrechtstrasse 29, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
Independent researcher, Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya
Allium ruhmerianum sect. Molium subgen. Amerallium sect. Rynchocarpum Libya Monocots

Abstract

Allium ruhmerianum Ascherson ex Durand et Barratte, an endemic Allium species from Cyrenaica, was examined using anatomical, cytological, and molecular methods to determine its relationship and position within the genus Allium taxonomy. The previously published chromosome number 2n=33 was not confirmed; we counted 2n=14 in all three accessions examined. In conjunction with cytological and anatomical results, the molecular data placed A. ruhmerianum in the Molium section, close to A. neapolitanum and A. palaestinum. These results render the A. section Rynchocarpum Brullo superfluous.

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FRIESEN, NIKOLAI, and ABDULNASER ABDULKARIM. 2025. “/Em&gt”;. Phytotaxa 687 (1):115-25. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.687.1.9.