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370122b Papaver nudicaule subsp. insulare V.V. Petrovsky

Distribution

Wrangel Island: Rare
Mid Arctic Tundra: Rare
Southern Arcti Tundra: Rare

GBIF

2n= 42 (6x). - Far East (Wrangel Island). - Petrovsky and Zhukova (1981); Zhukova and Petrovsky (1985a, seven counts).

Geography: Asian Beringian: RFE.

Notes: Papaver nudicaule subsp. insulare is only known from Wrangel Island. Both subsp. insulare and subsp. americanum are widely separated from all other parts of P. nudicaule s. lat. and may represent relics, respectivelly, on the now largely submerged Chukchi Sea Shelf and in American Beringia.

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