Poaceae: Paspalum lilloi Hack

Abstract

Paspalum lilloi Hack. is an endemic species from Iguazú Falls. Karyomorphometric analyses and meiotic behaviour description are presented for the first time for the species. It showed unimodal and symmetrical karyotype (1A according to Stebbins’s categories, 1971), comprising 20 metacentric chromosomes (Fig. 8A) whose length is ranging from 2.8 to 1.6 μm, and 22.69 μm per haploid genome. Chromosomes behave regularly at meiosis, with mainly 20II at diakinesis and also 9II + 2I, 8II + 4I, 7II + 6I, 6II + 8I (Fig. 8B). At diakinesis and metaphase I, the mean frequency of I was 3.085 ± 0.358 per pollen mother cell (PMC) and 8.457 ± 0.209 II per PMC.