Dryas integrifolia subsp. sylvatica (Hultén) Hultén
Publ. & Syn.Hultén, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 53: 536 (1959). - Dryas integrifolia var. sylvatica Hultén, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 30: 527 (1936). Holotype (S): Alaska: Circle, open woods, 19. July 1935, leg. J.P. Anderson 2516. - Dryas sylvatica (Hultén) A.E. Porsild, Canad. Field-Naturalist 61: 191 (1947).
NotesElven and Murray: Yurtsev (PAF proposal) did not accept this northwestern North American race. It differs from subsp. integrifolia in several characters, occurs in different (drier and often more base-rich) sites but sometimes locally co-occurs, and occupies a range of its own, mainly in non-glaciated and now forested parts of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Intermediates towards subsp. integrifolia are frequent but not to a degree that obscures the distinctness of the subspecies.
Chromosomes18 (2x). - Alaska. - Dawe and Murray (1979).
GeographyAmerican Beringian: ALA CAN.
Distribution N = F     AN = s     E = S     CC = r     AW = r     [ key ]
Parent taxonDryas integrifolia Vahl
PAF ID640806b
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Panarctic Flora Editor-in-Chief: Reidar Elven (Natural History Museum, University of Oslo)
Editorial Committee: Reidar Elven, David F. Murray (Museum of the North, University of Alaska), Volodya Yu. Razzhivin (Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences), Boris A. Yurtsev [deceased] (Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences)