Panarctic Flora

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630601a Oxytropis deflexa subsp. deflexa

Distribution

Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Rare
Anabar - Onenyo: Rare
Yana - Kolyma: Rare
West Chukotka: Present (Frequency unknown)
Shrub Tundra: Rare
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered

2n= 16 (2x). - Siberia (N, S), Asia (C, E). - Several reports.

Geography: Asian (C-NE): SIB RFE.

Notes: Yurtsev: Subspecies deflexa represents no doubt an ancestral type, e.g., with well developed stems, long lax inflorescence, and long stipitate almost cylindrical pods.

Elven: Subspecies norvegica is even more pronounced in these features. Its minute and very isolated range is within a part of Europe heavily ice-covered during the last glaciation and it is hardly an ancestral type, at least not where it now is. It is rather a recent (late glacial) segregate from the Asian "ancestral type".

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