421213a Silene uralensis subsp. uralensis
Distribution
Kanin - Pechora: Rare
Polar Ural - Novaya Zemlya: Scattered
Yamal - Gydan: Scattered
Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Presence uncertain
Anabar - Onenyo: Scattered
Kharaulakh: Frequent
Yana - Kolyma: Presence uncertain
West Chukotka: Presence uncertain
South Chukotka: Presence uncertain
East Chukotka: Frequent
Western Alaska: Frequent
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Frequent
Central Canada: Scattered
Hudson Bay - Labrador: Scattered
Western Greenland: Scattered
Eastern Greenland: Rare
Southern Arcti Tundra: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Frequent
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- ?Lychnis attenuata Farr, Trans. & Proc. Bot. Soc. Pennsylvania 1: 419 (1904). Described from British Columbia (Canada). - ?Melandrium apetalum subsp. attenuatum (Farr) H. Hara, J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, sect. 3, Bot. 6, 2: 42 (1952). - ?Silene wahlbergella subsp. attenuata (Farr) Hultén, Circumpolar Pl. 2: 326 (1971). - ?Gastrolychnis apetala subsp. attenuata (Farr) V.V. Petrovsky, Bot. Zhurn. 58: 119 (1973). - ?Silene uralensis subsp. attenuata (Farr) McNeill, Canad. J. Bot. 56: 307 (1978). - ?Gastrolychnis attenuata (Farr) Czerep., Sosud. Rast. SSSR: 161 (1981).
2n=
24 (2x). - Siberia (N), Far East (N), Canada (Hudson Bay). - Löve and Löve (1975c, 1982a); Krogulevich (1976a); Krogulevich and Rostovtseva (1984); Zhukova and Petrovsky (1987b).
Not included: A report of 2n = 48 (4x) from the Ogilvie Mountains in the Yukon Territory (Mulligan and Porsild 1970, for Melandrium apetalum). This count probably belongs to Silene soczavana or to S. uralensis subsp. ogilviensis.
Geography: European (NE) - Asian (N) - amphi-Beringian - North American (N): RUS SIB RFE ALA CAN GRL.
Notes: Elven, Murray, and Petrovsky: Doubts about some regions in northern and northeastern Siberia and the Russian Far East in the distribution table concern the separation between subsp. uralensis and subsp. arctica. The Russian material needs revision. Tzvelev (2000b) considered this taxon, under the name Gastrolychnis uniflora (Ledeb.) Tzvelev, to be present in arctic and some boreal parts of Russia from the Pechora area east to the Russian Far East, and also in Svalbard (there our subsp. arctica), but not in North America or Greenland. As argued for above, we accept subsp. uralensis as a major race also of North America and Greenland but exclude it from Svalbard.
The Cordilleran plant long accepted as Lychnis attenuata etc. is problematic. Czerepanov (1981) accepted it from Russia and Pavlova and Bezdeleva (1996) reported it from Wrangel Island. Morton (2005c) was very critical to "attenuata" as a taxon. In the material (ALA) from Alaska and the Yukon Territory, this name has been applied mainly to plants we assign to Silene soczavana and we find no support for an additional taxon there. We have not seen any type and provisionally enter the "attenuata" names as synonyms for subsp. uralensis.
Higher Taxa
- Silene uralensis [421213,species]