Beta trigyna

Beta trigyna
	Beta trigyna botanical illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Genus:	Beta
Species:	B. trigyna
Binomial name
	Beta trigyna; Waldst. & Kit.[1]
Synonyms[2]
	Beta cicla Georgi; Beta cycla Pall.;

Beta trigyna, called the Caucasian wild beet and the Turkish wild beet, is a species of Beta native to Bulgaria, Iran, Romania, the Transcaucasus, Turkey (including the European portion), Turkmenistan, Ukraine (including Crimea), and the former Yugoslavia, and occurring in waste places elsewhere in Europe.[2] It is a hexaploid (2n=54) that usually reproduces by apomixis.[3]

References

Descr. Icon. Pl. Hung. 1: 34 (1800)
"Beta trigyna Waldst. & Kit". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
Hornsey, K. G. (1973). "The Occurrence of Hexaploid Plants Among Autotetraploid Populations of Sugar Beet, (Beta vulgaris L.) and the Production of Tetraploid Progeny Using a Diploid Pollinator". Caryologia. 26 (2): 225–228. doi:10.1080/00087114.1973.10796538.

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[1] Descr. Icon. Pl. Hung. 1: 34 (1800)

[164502-1-2] "Beta trigyna Waldst. & Kit". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

[3] Hornsey, K. G. (1973). "The Occurrence of Hexaploid Plants Among Autotetraploid Populations of Sugar Beet, (Beta vulgaris L.) and the Production of Tetraploid Progeny Using a Diploid Pollinator". Caryologia. 26 (2): 225–228. doi:10.1080/00087114.1973.10796538.