New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Self-incompatibility in Cordyllne pumilio (Agavaceae)

RE. BEEVER

Plant Diseases Division, DSIR
Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract Controlled pollinations between 2 plants of Cordyline pumilio Hook. f. showed that each sets no or few seed when selfed but abundant seed when crossed by the other. This result, supported by additional crossing evidence and field observations, indicates that the species is self-incompatible.

Keywords Cordyline pumilio; self-incompatibility; Agavaceae; floral biology; New Zealand flora

Received 31 May 1982
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1983, Vol. 21 : 93-95
0028-825X/83/2101-0093$2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1983

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