This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants on 4 April 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2015.04.002 [Dear Professor Bohumil Mandak, Associate Editor of Flora , Revised parts based on the reviewer #1 are shaded in blue and the reviewer #2 in green] Polyploidy in Lilium lancifolium : evidence of autotriploidy and no niche divergence between diploid and triploid cytotypes in their native ranges Mi Yoon Chung a,1 , Jordi López-Pujol b,1 , Jae Min Chung c, Ki-Joong Kim d, Seon Joo Park e, and Myong Gi Chung f,* a Department of Biology Education, Seowon University, Cheongju 361-742, Republic of Korea b BioC, GReB, Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Passeig del Migdia s/n,10 08038 Barcelona, Spain c Division of Forest Biodiversity and Herbarium, Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon 487- 821, Republic of Korea d School of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Republic of Korea e Department of Life Science, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 712-749, Republic of Korea f Department of Biology and the Research Institute of Natural Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea ____________________________________________________ *Corresponding author. Tel.: +82 055 772 1343; fax: +82 055 772 1349. E-mail addresses:
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[email protected]. 1Both authors contributed equally to this work, and should be considered co-first authors.