Potentilla hyparctica subsp. hyparctica
Publ. & Syn.Potentilla groenlandica R. Br., Voy. Explor. Baffin's Bay, App.: 193 (1819) [nom. nud.]. Reported from Greenland.
NotesSubspecies hyparctica (Entity I sensu Elven 2007) is the widespread high-arctic taxon and is predominantly hexaploid in Russian counts as in counts from Svalbard, Greenland, and northernmost Canada. The northwestern European arctic region is Svalbard but the plant is also present as very rare and isolated in northern Sweden.
Chromosomes42 (6x), 49 (7x). - See above.
Not included: All reports of 2n = 28 (4x, see above) may be referable to subsp. nivicola.
GeographyCircumpolar: NOR RUS SIB RFE ALA CAN GRL.
Distribution A = S     AN = s     B = F     AO = f     C = F     GW = f     D = F     E = S     CC = f     WI = f     YG = f     HL = f     EP = f     CE = f     CS = s     UN = f     YK = f     AW = s     GE = f     Kh = f     SF = f     CW = f     Tm = f     KP = r     [ key ]
Parent taxonPotentilla hyparctica Malte
PAF ID641055a
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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)