830405 Mertensia pubescens (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) DC.
Distribution
South Chukotka: Scattered
Shrub Tundra: Rare
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- DC., Prodr. 10: 90 (1846). - Pulmonaria pubescens Willd. ex Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 4: 744 (1819). Described from the Kurile Islands (the Russian Far East).
- Lithospermum kamczaticum Turcz., Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 13: 75 (1840). Type: Russian Far East: Kamtchatka, Tigil, leg. Turczaninow. - Mertensia kamczatica (Turcz.) DC., Prodr. 10: 100 (1846).
2n=
(1) 24 (4x). - Far East (N). - Sokolovskaya (1963, 1968).
(2) 48 (8x). - Far East (N). - Zhukova (1980).
Geography: Asian Beringian: RFE.
Notes: Elven: Mertensia pubescens is an Asian extension of the otherwise North American M. paniculata complex (Nikiforova 1997a) and should be re-evaluated.
Petrovsky: I am not certain what plant Sokolovskaya counted the tetraploid chromosome number on. However, the same two ploidy levels are reported from M. paniculata.
Higher Taxa
- Mertensia [8304,genus]