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THE species Rumex acetosella L. is a weed, which seems to be distributed all over the northern hemisphere. It has been investigated cytologieally by Roth1, who counted the chromosome number n = 16 (2n = 32), and later, among others, by Meurman2, Kihara3, and Jensen4, who all found the number to be hexaploid or 2n = 42.
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LÖVE, A. Polyploidy in Rumex acetosella L. Nature 145, 351 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145351a0
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