860812e Antennaria friesiana subsp. neoalaskana (A.E. Porsild) R.J. Bayer & Stebbins
Distribution
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Rare
Central Canada: Presence uncertain
Southern Arcti Tundra: Presence uncertain
Shrub Tundra: Rare
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered
- R.J. Bayer & Stebbins, Canad. J. Bot. 71: 1596 (1993). - Antennaria neoalaskana A.E. Porsild, Sargentia 4: 71 (1943). Holotype (CAN)?: Canada: the Northwest Territories, west of the Mackenzie River Delta, 68 x 136 Richardson Mountains, 07.-10. July 1933, leg. A.E. Porsild.
2n=
56 (8x). - Bayer (2006, secondary report).
Geography: American Beringian: ALA CAN.
Notes: Male and female plants are equally frequent in subsp. neoalaskana; sexual. Löve and Löve (1975a) synonymized Antennaria neoalaskana with A. compacta, a taxon which Bayer (1993, 1996) included in A. alpina s. lat. and Chmielewski (1997) in A. media. However, the Löves cited only a northeastern Asian chromosome number report (Zhukova et al. 1973) for this plant which otherwise is considered purely American. They have probably mixed and corrupted the original data. The sexual subsp. neoalaskana differs distinctly morphologically from the also sexual subsp. alaskana (Bayer 2006).
Higher Taxa
- Antennaria friesiana [860812,species]