Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank Prof. Hanna WeissSchneeweiss and Dr. Eva M. Temsch (University of Vienna) for kindly providing the seeds of the reference standard used in genome size estimation. We are also very grateful for Soyun Won at Dadohaehaesang National Park of Korea for their kind help with field survey. This work was supported by grants from the Korean National Park Research Institute, grant number NPRI 2021-09.
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