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090301 Diplazium sibiricum (Turcz. ex Kunze) Sa. Kurata

Distribution

Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Rare
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered

2n= (1) 82 (2x). - Europe (Norway). - Brøgger (1960, two counts).
(2) 164 (4x). - Asia (Himalaya), Far East (Japan). - At least three reports.

Geography: European (NE) - Asian (N/C): SIB.

Notes: Danilov (1988b) mapped Diplazium sibiricum from northwest of Dudinka in Taimyr, north of the arctic boundary.

Löve et al. (1977) assigned the disjunct Nordic diploid population to D. sommerfeltii and reserved the name D. sibiricum for the Russian-Asian tetraploid. The ploidy level of the northern Russian and Siberian plants is not known; they may be diploid, too. The Nordic diploid does not reach the Arctic. No morphological comparison has been undertaken but the matter should be studied.

Higher Taxa