342003a Calamagrostis purpurascens subsp. purpurascens
Distribution
Svalbard - Franz Joseph Land: Rare
Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Rare
Anabar - Onenyo: Rare
Kharaulakh: Rare
Yana - Kolyma: Rare
West Chukotka: Frequent
Wrangel Island: Rare
South Chukotka: Frequent
East Chukotka: Frequent
Western Alaska: Frequent
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Frequent
Central Canada: Frequent
Ellesmere Island: Scattered
Western Greenland: Scattered
Eastern Greenland: Scattered
Northern arctic Tundra: Rare
Mid Arctic Tundra: Frequent
Southern Arcti Tundra: Frequent
Shrub Tundra: Frequent
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- Calamagrostis yukonensis Nash, Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 2, 6: 154 (1901). Type (NY): Canada: the Yukon Territory, Dawson, 14. July 1899, leg. Williams.
- Calamagrostis purpurascens var. maltei Polunin, Bot. Canad. E. Arctic: 51 (1940). Holotype (CAN 118833): Canada: Nunavut, Baffin Island, Eclipse Sound, Pond Inlet, 15. Aug. 1927, leg. M.O. Malte. - Calamagrostis purpurascens subsp. maltei (Polunin) A.E. Porsild, Publ. Bot. (Ottawa) 4: 5 (1975). - Calamagrostis maltei (Polunin) Á. Löve & D. Löve, Bot. Not. 128: 503 (1976).
- Calamagrostis caespitosa V.N. Vassil., Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk SSSR 13: 54 (1950), non Steud. (1854). Holotype (LE): Russian Far East: the Ola region, basin of the right upper tributaries of Kolyma, upper reaches of Khalatkan, 02. Sept. 1938, leg. V. Vassiljev 1278.
2n=
(1) 28 (4x). - Siberia, Far East, Alaska, Canada, U.S.A. - Numerous reports.
(2) 42 (6x). - Siberia, Far East, Canada. - Numerous reports.
(3) 40-58. - U.S.A. - At least three reports.
(4) 56 58 (8x). - U.S.A., Greenland. - At least three reports.
(5) 84 (12x). - Alaska. - Bowden (1960b).
Some reports probably only for the collective species. The reports of tetraploids (presumably representing sexual plants) are, with one exception (Greene 1980, eastern North America), from the Pacific areas from Japan to Chukotka, western Alaska, and one from the Mackenzie District (Bowden 1960b).
Geography: Asian (NE) - amphi-Beringian - Cordilleran - North American - amphi-Atlantic (W): NOR SIB RFE ALA CAN GRL.
Notes: Calamagrostis purpurascens has recently been found as new to Europe in several localities within a small area in northern Svalbard (Elvebakk and Nilsen 2002, additional finds by Alsos, Elven et al. 2010; TROM, O). The material conforms to subsp. purpurascens which then becomes amphi-Atlantic.
Elven and Aiken: Greene (1980) included C. maltei and C. yukonensis in var. purpurascens, followed by Soreng and Greene in Soreng et al. (2003), Marr et al. (2007), and by us.
Higher Taxa
- Calamagrostis purpurascens [342003,species]