860801 Antennaria villifera Boriss.
Distribution
Northern Fennoscandia: Present only in the Borderline Arctic
Kanin - Pechora: Rare
Polar Ural - Novaya Zemlya: Frequent
Yamal - Gydan: Frequent
Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Scattered
Anabar - Onenyo: Scattered
Kharaulakh: Frequent
West Chukotka: Frequent
South Chukotka: Rare
East Chukotka: Rare
Mid Arctic Tundra: Rare
Southern Arcti Tundra: Frequent
Shrub Tundra: Frequent
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- Boriss., Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk SSSR 20: 292 (1960). Described from either Kolguev or Vaigach (European Russia).
- Antennaria carpatica var. laestadiana Trautv., Fl. Terr. Tschukt.: 24 (1878). Nomen for Gnaphalium carpaticum var. ? Wahlenb., Fl. Svec.: 515 (1826). Described from Virihjaur in Lule lappmark (Sweden) and from Alta in Finnmark (Norway).
- Antennaria lanata auct., non (Hook.) Greene (1898).
2n=
(1) 28 (4x). - Europe (N), Siberia (N), Far East (N). - Numerous reports, more than 17 counts from Norway alone.
(2) 42 (6x). - Europe (N), Siberia (N), Far East (N). - Numerous reports, more than 25 counts from Norway alone.
Geography: European (N) - Asian (N): (NOR) RUS SIB RFE.
Notes: Two basic studies of Antennaria villifera are Urbanska-Worytkiewicz (1970) and Urbanska (1986). Both sexes are present in some populations, only females in others. Urbanska considered apomictic seed production to predominate. In Bayer's concept, the plants are diploid and triploid, in our tetraploid and hexaploid.
Many Russian authors have applied the name A. lanata for this Eurasian species. That name belongs to a morphologically different and tetraploid sexual Cordilleran species described from the Canadian Rockies, based on a Drummond collection (e.g., Scoggan 1979; Urbanska 1983; Hultén and Fries 1986; Bayer 2006).
Higher Taxa
- Antennaria [8608,genus]