630641 Oxytropis kateninii Jurtz.
Distribution
East Chukotka: Rare
Southern Arcti Tundra: Rare
- Jurtz., Fl. Arct. URSS 9, 2: 146, 182 (1986). Holotype (LE): Russian Far East: East Chukotka, Chukchi Peninsula, "pars boreali-orientalis, regio ripae dextrae fl. Chesmymken adjacens, 2 km ab ostio", 08. Aug. 1982, leg. A.E. Katenin.
Geography: Asian Beringian: RFE.
Notes: Oxytropis kateninii is reported from a single locality on the Chukchi Peninsula, within the range there of O. borealis.
Yurtsev: Oxytropis kateninii is a relic occurrence of the O. viscida aggregate in the Arctic, sympatric with O. borealis. It differs from the latter in smaller flowers, shorter calyx teeth, smaller and narrower asymmetrical calyx, scapes adpressedly white pilose, narrower stipules etc. From O. viscida it differs in shorter calyx teeth, densely capitate racemes, gynoecia lacking glands except for bases of styles, etc.; from O. vasskovskyi in shorter, capitate (not elongating) racemes, white adpressed pilose scapes, ovaria lacking glands, etc.
Higher Taxa
- Oxytropis [6306,genus]