| Cherleria dicranoides Cham. & Schltdl. | |
| Publ. & Syn. | Cham. & Schltdl., Linnaea 1: 63 (1826). Type (LE): Russian Far East: East Chukotka, St. Lawrence Bay, leg. Chamisso and Eschscholtz. - Stellaria dicranoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Fenzl in Ledeb., Fl. Ross. 1: 395 (1842). - Arenaria dicranoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Hultén, Acta Univ. Lund., n. s., sect. 2, 40, 1: 688 (1944), non Kunth in Humb., Bonpl. and Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 34 (1823 [from Mexico]). - Arenaria chamissonis Maguire, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 46: 498 (1951). Nomen novum for Arenaria dicranoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Hultén (1944), non Kunth (1823). |
| Notes | McNeill: It is not a Stellaria. It rather belongs in the Cherleria group (where it originally was described), i.e., in Minuartia s. lat. Murray and Elven: This species has been treated as a Stellaria by a majority of authors (including reluctantly by Morton 2005b) but is an obvious misfit in that genus. The genus Cherleria (type an Alpine European species) is morphologically distinct and is now fairly widely accepted in Europe as a genus apart from Minuartia. We prefer to accept Cherleria rather than to make a new and possibly short-lived combination within Minuartia. |
| Chromosomes | 26 (2x). - Far East (N), Alaska. - Johnson and Packer (1968); Yurtsev and Zhukova (unpubl.). |
| Geography | Amphi-Beringian: RFE ALA. |
| Parent taxon | Cherleria L. |
| PAF ID | 420501 |