| Polemonium caeruleum subsp. schmidtii (Klokov) Tolm. | |
| Publ. & Syn. | Tolm., Fl. Arct. URSS 8: 216 (1980). - Polemonium schmidtii Klokov, Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk SSSR 17: 318 (1955). Described from the Aldan area in Yakutia (Siberia). |
| Notes | Rybinskaya (1997) accepted Polemonium schmidtii as a species replacing P. caeruleum in parts of Siberia. It might be a major race and we enter it as such (subspecies) for the Checklist. The main differential character reported by Rybinskaya is that the corolla is pubescens in the margin in subsp. schmidtii, glabrous in subsp. caeruleum. There are a few additional characters reported to differentiate subsp. schmidtii from both subsp. caeruleum and P. acutiflorum. The subspecies is mapped from two small and widely separate areas: one in southernmost Taimyr and Putorana and one in southernmost Yakutia (and east to the Okhotsk Sea, Tzvelev 1995). |
| Chromosomes | 18 (2x). - Europe (N, C), Siberia (C, S). - Numerous reports. |
| Geography | Asian (N/C): SIB. |
| Distribution | N = S E = R Tm = r [ key ] |
| Parent taxon | Polemonium caeruleum L. |
| PAF ID | 700201b |