700203 Polemonium boreale Adams
Distribution
Northern Fennoscandia: Rare
Kanin - Pechora: Frequent
Svalbard - Franz Joseph Land: Scattered
Polar Ural - Novaya Zemlya: Frequent
Yamal - Gydan: Frequent
Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Frequent
Anabar - Onenyo: Scattered
Kharaulakh: Frequent
Yana - Kolyma: Rare
West Chukotka: Frequent
Wrangel Island: Frequent
South Chukotka: Scattered
East Chukotka: Scattered
Western Alaska: Scattered
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Frequent
Central Canada: Scattered
Eastern Greenland: Rare
Northern arctic Tundra: Rare
Mid Arctic Tundra: Frequent
Southern Arcti Tundra: Frequent
Shrub Tundra: Frequent
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered
- Adams, Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 92 (1817). Described from the lower Lena River in Yakutia (Siberia).
- Polemonium humile Willd. ex Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 4: 792 (1819), non Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 125 (1796) nec Lindl. (1830). Described from Kamtchatka (the Russian Far East). Type (B): Herb. Willdenow 3770, according to Hultén. - Polemonium boreale subsp. humile (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) Á. Löve & D. Löve, Bot. Not. 128: 517 (1976).
- ?Polemonium villosum Rudolph ex Georgi, Geogr.-Phys. Naturhist. Beschr. Russ. Reich. 3, 4: 771 (1800). Described from Siberia. Type in LE.
- ?Polemonium hyperboreum Tolm., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 23: 273 (1927). Type (TK): Siberia: Taimyr, "bei der Mündung der Pjassinaflusses auf der Insel Tschájatschij Basár (ungefähr 7350' n.Br. und 87 ö.L.)", 31. July 1922, leg. B. Puschkarew. - ?Polemonium pulcherrimum subsp. hyperboreum (Tolm.) Á. Löve & D. Löve, Bot. Not. 128: 517 (1976).
2n=
18 (2x). - Europe (N), Russia (N), Siberia, Far East (N), Alaska. - Numerous reports, partly for P. humile and P. hyperboreum.
Geography: Amphi-Atlantic (E) - European (N) - Asian (N) - amphi-Beringian - North American (NW): NOR RUS SIB RFE ALA CAN GRL.
Notes: The priority name for this species might be problematic as is its circumscription. According to Tzvelev (1980b), Polemonium villosum Rudolph ex Georgi 1800 is a nomen ambiguum and belongs in the synonymy of P. boreale Adams 1817, which means that the name P. villosum would have priority if it was based on a type belonging to the same species as P. boreale. Rybinskaya (1997) rather "synonymized" P. villosum with the southern Siberian and eastern Asian P. racemosum (Regel.) Kitam. 1941, described from Korea, but as the former species name has priority 141 years before the latter one this "synonymization" probably reflects applications of names rather than synonyms as defined by types.
Hultén (1968a) accepted P. hyperboreum as a species apart and Löve and Löve (1975a, 1976a) accepted P. pulcherrimum subsp. hyperboreum. More recent Russian authors have rather synonymized the name P. hyperboreum with P. boreale (Tzvelev 1980b; Rybinskaya 1997; Petrovsky in comments). Tolmachev (1927b) indicated affinities of his P. hyperboreum with the Altai P. lanatum, the northeastern Asian P. parviflorum, and the North American P. pulcherrimum. He especially noted branched stems and well developed stem leaves, both characters not pointing towards P. boreale. Rybinskaya (1997) synonymized P. parviflorum with P. pulcherrimum. Comparing material from northeastern Asia collected in 2004-2005 and from Alaska, we are convinced that a race or close relative of P. pulcherrimum is present in northeastern Asia (as mapped by Rybinskaya 1997, for other reports see below). We suspect that at least some of the northeastern Asian reports as P. hyperboreum refer to that species.
Löve and Löve (1976a) stated P. boreale subsp. humile to be "the northern Siberian race of the species". Petrovsky (in comments) synonymized P. humile with P. boreale s. str.
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Source: Michael Haferkamp at Wikispecies
Higher Taxa
- Polemonium [7002,genus]