430601 Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumort.
Distribution
West Chukotka: Rare
Hudson Bay - Labrador: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Rare
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- Dumort., Fl. Belg.: 22 (1827). - Chenopodium maritimum L., Sp. Pl.: 221 (1753). Lectotype (LINN): Europe. Herb. Linn. 313.21, left-hand specimen (Pedrol and Castroviejo 1988: 98).
- ?Suaeda arctica Jurtz. & V.V. Petrovsky, Bot. Zhurn. 63: 371 (1978). Holotype (LE): Russian Far East: West Chukotka, "litus orientale sinus Tschaunensis ad ostium fl. Apapelchin", 04. Aug. 1968, leg. A. Korobkov and V. Petrovsky.
2n=
36 (4x). - Europe. - Numerous reports.
Geography: Circumboreal: RFE CAN.
Notes: Yurtsev: [Suaeda arctica] Dwarf plants, often flowering already from the cotyledons. Most closely related to S. maritima. Found in one estuary but later destroyed there; subsequently found in another locality.
Elven: Very similar dwarf plants of S. maritima have been found in other arctic or near-arctic situations, e.g., in northeastern Norway (Finnmark: Sør-Varanger, TRH) ca. 1200 km from the nearest known locality of S. maritima. Also these had a neotenic behaviour, flowering from the lowermost nodes, and they disappeared after a short time. We have interpreted them as casual occurrences resulting from dispersal by birds or (less probably) sea currents, and just as a modification. Either S. arctica is extremely disjunct and casual or it must be re-interpreted. For the time being, we include S. arctica in S. maritima.
Higher Taxa
- Suaeda [4306,genus]