500704 Saxifraga setigera Pursh
Distribution
Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Scattered
Anabar - Onenyo: Rare
Kharaulakh: Scattered
Yana - Kolyma: Rare
West Chukotka: Scattered
Wrangel Island: Scattered
South Chukotka: Scattered
East Chukotka: Frequent
Western Alaska: Scattered
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Scattered
Mid Arctic Tundra: Scattered
Southern Arcti Tundra: Frequent
Shrub Tundra: Frequent
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 312 (1813). Holotype (BM)?: Alaska: the Bering Sea Coast, Kuskokwim Bay, Cape Newenham, 1778, leg. D. Nelson. - Saxifraga flagellaris subsp. setigera (Pursh) Tolm., Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk SSSR 19: 170 (1959).
- Saxifraga flagellaris auct., non Willd. (1810).
2n=
16 (2x). - Siberia (S), Far East (N), Alaska, Canada. - Several reports, numerous counts.
Geography: Asian (N/C) - amphi-Beringian - Cordilleran: SIB RFE ALA CAN.
Notes: Zhmylev: Saxifraga setigera is an eastern Siberian-Asian and northwestern North American arctic-alpine species, distinguished from the also diploid Caucasian S. flagellaris Willd. s. str. by presence of glandular hairs on stolons and length of cilia on the leaves. These characters, however, are not always well expressed.
Higher Taxa
- Saxifraga [5007,genus]