A NAME CHANGE FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN TEOSINTE
- 1 August 1978
- Vol. 27 (4) , 361-363
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1220377
Abstract
Summary: The differences between maize and annual teosinte are so numerous that individuals of the two species are never confused, and hybrids and backcrosses are easily distinguished. Mexican and Central American teosintes are similar, but differences in the male and female inflorescences, as well as cytogenetic and geographical separation, allow them to be delimited as two species of Zea Linnaeus (1753) (Gramineae).This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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