“…The presence of B chromosomes in Artemisia is not unusual. Although no species of this genus are included in the lists of plants with B chromosomes published by Battaglia (1.964) and Jones & Rees (1982), our present finding is consistent with the detection of accessory chromosomes in several other Artemisia taxa (Kim, 1994;Masumori et al, 1995;Valles & Siljak-Yakovlev, 1997;Torrell et al, 1999aTorrell et al, , 2001.…”