Festuca baffinensis Polunin
Publ. & Syn.Polunin, Bot. Canad. E. Arctic: 91 (1940). Lectotype (BM): Canada: Nunavut, Baffin Island, Pond Inlet, 12. Sept. 1934, leg. N. Polunin 706 (Pavlick 1984: 2453). Holotype (GH) lost.
NotesFestuca baffinensis has often been considered part of the F. brachyphylla aggregate but is perhaps not very closely related to it. In Europe, it is restricted to Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya.
Chromosomes28 (4x). - Europe (N), Far East (N), Alaska, Canada, Greenland. - Numerous reports.
GeographyAsian (NE) - amphi-Beringian - North American (N) - amphi-Atlantic (W): NOR RUS SIB RFE ALA CAN GRL.
Distribution N = S     AN = f     B = S     C = F     GW = r     D = F     E = F     CC = f     WI = s     HL = f     EP = f     CE = s     UN = r     YK = r     AW = r     GE = f     SF = s     CW = s     [ key ]
Parent taxonFestuca L.
PAF ID342203
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Panarctic Flora Editor-in-Chief: Reidar Elven (Natural History Museum, University of Oslo)
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