Plant Diversity ›› 1994, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (01): 1-3.

• Articles •    

PRELIMINARY KARYOMORPHOLOGICAL STUDY ON THE PLANTS IN GENERA OXYTROPIS AND ASTRAGALUS FROM QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU

WANG Li GUZhi-Jian SUN Hang   

  1. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Online:1994-02-25 Published:1994-02-25

Abstract: The plants of genera Oxytropis and Astragalus which belonged to the family Paplionaceae are commonly distributed in dry land or high mountain region. There were similiar morphological characters, and their geographic distributions overlapped. In the present paper, the karyotypes of seven species were investigated in two genera.

Key words: Oxytropis