phantastica^ambigua, (phan^ama)

Habit: Growth strongly retarded but less than phantastica^antiqua.
Leaves: Leaves are irregular and partly reduced to needle size. Leaves are often assymetric. Many somatic backmutations. Depending on the time of the backmutation smaller or greater sectors arise, that are mostly heterozygous.
Seedlings:
Cotyledones:
Hypocotyl:
Inflorescence:
Flowers: Flowers are small and colourless. Upper and lower lips are much reduced, bend upwards and have many spikelike outgrowths.
- Upper lip:
- Lower lip:
- Bumps:
Seed:
Roots:
Remarks: phan⁺ is dominant over phan^an. F₂ 175:58
Pictures:
- No pictures available.
Stubbe's original notes (as stored in the IPK, Gatersleben) (in German!):
- Page 443
Literature:
- Stubbe H. 1932
- Brücher H. 1943 called ambigua there.
- Stubbe H. 1966 on page 348.

(kst) 1996

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phantasticaambigua, (phanama)

phantastica^ambigua, (phan^ama)