500717 Saxifraga spinulosa Adams
Distribution
Kanin - Pechora: Presence uncertain
Polar Ural - Novaya Zemlya: Scattered
Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Frequent
Anabar - Onenyo: Scattered
Kharaulakh: Frequent
Yana - Kolyma: Rare
West Chukotka: Rare
Wrangel Island: Presence uncertain
South Chukotka: Rare
East Chukotka: Rare
Mid Arctic Tundra: Scattered
Southern Arcti Tundra: Frequent
Shrub Tundra: Frequent
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- Adams, Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 96 (1817). Holotype (MW)?: Siberia: "in regione alpinae montium Baicalensium inter pagum Kultuk et fortalitium Karazay". - Saxifraga bronchialis subsp. spinulosa (Adams) Hultén, Fl. Kamtchatka 3: 14 (1929).
- Saxifraga submonantha A.P. Khokhr. & Kuvaev, Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. 99, 1: 124 (1994). - Nomen novum for Saxifraga monantha A.P. Khokhr. & Kuvaev, Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. 98, 6: 109 (1993 1994), non Harry Sm., Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 2: 94 (1958). Described from the Krasnoyarsk area (Siberia).
- ?Saxifraga firma Litv. ex Losinsk., Fl. URSS 9: 184, 488 (1939). Described from the Chukchi Peninsula in East Chukotka (the Russian Far East). Type in LE.
2n=
(1) ca. 44. - Siberia (S). - Belaeva and Siplivinsly (1976).
(2) ca. 50. - Russia (N). - Sokolovskaya (1970).
(3) ca. 80. - Siberia (S). - Krogulevich (1971); Belaeva and Siplivinsky (1976).
Not included: A report of 2n = 28 (2x?) from West Chukotka (Zhukova 1969, for S. firma) probably belongs to another species.
Geography: Asian (N/C): RUS SIB RFE.
Notes: Zhmylev: Saxifraga spinulosa is a Siberian arctic-boreal mountain species of considerable morphological variability, differing from S. funstonii by, e.g., short cilia along the leaf margin.
Murray and Elven: Zhmylev indicated occurrence also in Alaska. We ask where in Alaska this species occurs.
Higher Taxa
- Saxifraga [5007,genus]