| Potentilla sp. "Varanger" | |
| Publ. & Syn. | Jurtz. & V.V. Petrovsky, Fl. Arct. URSS 9, 1: 320, 217 (1984). Holotype (LE): Russian Far East: West Chukotka, "in montibus Anjuensibus, brachium montis Ionai ad fl. Levyi Jarakvaam", 11. July 1965, leg. B. Yurtsev. |
| Notes | The plants previously assigned to Potentilla subquinata from the Varanger Peninsula in northeastern Norway (e.g., by Hultén 1971b; Kurtto et al. 2004) combine characters of P. crantzii and P. nivea and form populations in a restricted area, mostly or entirely in the absence of P. nivea. Similar populations are known from both southern Norway and northern Scandinavia south of the arctic parts, in these cases as hybrid swarms in the presence of both assumed parents. This plant would probably merit rank as a hybrid species in the approach of Soják and Yurtsev but we are reluctant to accept it as more than local or regional, independently arisen biotypes. |
| Chromosomes | 49 (7x). - Far East (Wrangel Island). - Petrovsky and Zhukova (1981). |
| Geography | European (N): NOR. |
| Distribution | N = R E = R FN = r [ key ] |
| Parent taxon | Potentilla L. |
| PAF ID | 641045 |