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500728 Saxifraga radiata Small

Distribution

Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Rare
Anabar - Onenyo: Rare
Kharaulakh: Scattered
Yana - Kolyma: Scattered
West Chukotka: Scattered
South Chukotka: Rare
East Chukotka: Scattered
Western Alaska: Scattered
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Scattered
Southern Arcti Tundra: Frequent
Shrub Tundra: Frequent
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent

2n= (1) 26 (2x). - Siberia (N), Far East (N), Canada (NW). - At least five reports.
(2) 48 48-52 (4x?). - Far East, Alaska. - Several reports, numerous counts.

Geography: Asian (NE) - amphi-Beringian: SIB RFE ALA CAN.

Notes: Zhmylev: Saxifraga radiata is a Siberian and northwestern North American hypoarctic species differing from S. sibirica by presence of runners, hair length, and leaf and petal shape. Plants with bulbils in the inflorescence, resembling S. cernua, occur rarely in the Arctic.

Elven: Jalas et al. (1999) synonymized Saxifraga radiata with S. sibirica, a viewpoint none of us share.

We suspect that the plants with bulbils in the inflorescence, noted by Zhmylev above, may be part of a perhaps fairly even hybrid transition (swarm) between S. radiata and S. cernua.

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