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Arabidopsis suecica
Arabidopsis suecica, synonyms including Hylandra suecica, is a species of cruciferous plants. It is native to Sweden, Finland, and parts of European Russia, and has been introduced into neighbouring regions. It was originally described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1846 as a subspecies of Arabis thaliana (now Arabidopsis thaliana) and raised to a full species by Johan Petter Norrlin in 1878. In 1961, it was moved to its own genus Hylandra by Áskell Löve. As of...
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Description
Similar to Arabidopsis thaliana, A. suecica is a small annual plant growing up to 15-40 cm (6-16 in) tall. It is self-compatible. The leaves are lanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly obovate, with toothed margins and stellate trichomes, and arranged in a basal rosette. The inflorescence is a raceme with white flowers 0.5 cm (0.2 in) in diameter.
Origin. A. suecica is an allotetraploid derived from the hybridization of A. thaliana and Arabidopsis arenosa in Europe approximately 16,000 years ago. Speciation likely involved multiple self-incompatible founding individuals rather than a single hybridization event. A parsimonious explanation for its origin is through the fusion of an unreduced egg cell from diploid A. thaliana with an autotetraploid A. arenosa sperm cell. However, recent evidence suggests that both parents were diploid, and that hybridization was followed by a whole genome duplication event.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 447774.