810704-06 The Pedicularis lanata aggregate P. alopecuroides, P. dasyantha, P. lanata
Geography: Nearly circumpolar.
Notes: The Pedicularis lanata aggregate includes four allopatric or parapatric taxa in a nearly circumpolar pattern. The taxa have been treated as species, sometimes with varieties (e.g., Ivanina 1980b), or as races, by Hultén (1968a, 1968b) as subspecies of P. kanei Durand 1856, by Hultén (1973) and others as subspecies of P. lanata Willd. ex Cham. & Schltdl. 1827. The earliest species name seems to be P. alopecuroides Steven ex Spreng. 1825. This implies some recombinations in case rank as subspecies is preferred. The taxa are comparatively distinct and (yet) without documented intermediates even where their ranges overlap. We accept them as species until a comparative morphological and molecular study tells otherwise.
Three of the taxa - P. alopecuroides, P. dasyantha, P. lanata - are predominantly arctic. The fourth - P. pallasii Vved., Fl. URSS 22: 817, 781 (1955) [P. lanata Willd. ex Cham. & Schltdl. subsp. pallasii (Vved.) Hultén, Bot. Not. 126: 504 (1973)] - is Pacific Asian from the Kuriles north along Kamtchatka and approaches the Arctic on the Koryak Coast (South Chukotka), see Ivanina (1991).
Higher Taxa
- Pedicularis [8107,genus]