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862201 Artemisia tanacetifolia L.

Distribution

Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Presence uncertain
Anabar - Onenyo: Rare
West Chukotka: Rare
South Chukotka: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Rare
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered

2n= (1) 18 (2x). - Far East (N). - Korobkov (1972); Volkova and Boyko (1985). Both for A. laciniata.
(2) 36 (4x). - Far East (N). - Zhukova (1980); Korobkov (1981). Both for A. laciniatiformis.
(3) 54 (6x). - Siberia (N), Far East (N). - Korobkov (1972, 1981); Zhukova and Petrovsky (1987a). Several counts for A. laciniata and A. laciniatiformis.
Some reports may belong to other species of the group.

Geography: Asian (N/C) - amphi-Beringian: SIB RFE.

Notes: Korobkov: Based on detailed taxonomic investigations of the group, especially forms closely related to A. laciniata Willd. s. lat., we came to the conclusion that A. laciniatiformis previously reported from subarctic and arctic areas is best regarded as a narrow endemic of Kamtchatka. Leonova assigned the subarctic-arctic plants to A. tanacetifolia L. s. lat. without subspecific status. I now consider this interpretation of the taxonomic status of the subarctic-arctic plants of Siberia and the Russian Far East to be the most appropriate one after a critical survey of the LE material together with Dr. Ehrendorfer. Besides, Ehrendorfer also identified with confidence the plants from interior Alaska and the Yukon Territory as A. tanacetifolia. Our investigations of this group are continuing, in macromorphology and morphology and anatomy of achenes and pollen grains.

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