Université de Fribourg

Biosystematic study of the diploid-polyploid Pilosella alpicola group with variation in breeding system: Patterns and processes

Šingliarová, Barbora ; Hodálová, Iva ; Mráz, Patrik

In: Taxon, 2011, vol. 60, no. 2, p. 450-470

Members of the Pilosella alpicola species group (Asteraceae) are distributed throughout the alpine region of the European mountains (Alps, Carpathians, Balkan mountains). Like other Pilosella species groups (Hieracium subg. Pilosella ), the taxonomy and species' relationships are poorly understood mostly due to widespread facultative apomixis, frequent hybridization and polyploidization—the...