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This species is accepted, and its native range is Subarctic to Central & E. Canada.

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Morphology General Habit
Perennial. Rhizomes elongated. Culms erect; 15-30 cm long. Culm-internodes smooth, or scaberulous. Leaves mostly basal; much reduced on the culm. Leaf-sheaths scaberulous. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.5-1 mm long. Leaf-blades 10-20 cm long; 1-2 mm wide; aromatic. Leaf-blade surface glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle spiciform; linear; 1.5-3 cm long; bearing few spikelets. Primary panicle branches appressed; bearing 1-2 fertile spikelets on each lower branch. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
Spikelets comprising 2 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets ovate; laterally compressed; 4-5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
Fertile
Spikelets comprising 2 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets ovate; laterally compressed; 4-5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma; shiny. Lower glume ovate; 2.5 mm long; 0.75 length of upper glume; hyaline; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume ovate; 3.5-4.5 mm long; 0.9 length of adjacent fertile lemma; hyaline; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume apex acute.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Basal sterile florets similar; male; with palea; attached to and deciduous with the fertile. Lemma of lower sterile floret elliptic; 1 length of fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 5 -veined; scabrous; entire; acute; muticous, or mucronate. Lemma of upper sterile floret oblong; 1 length of lower sterile floret; membranous; scabrous; entire; acute; muticous, or mucronate. Fertile lemma ovate; 4-5 mm long; cartilaginous; without keel. Lemma surface scabrous; rough above. Lemma margins convolute; covering most of palea. Lemma apex acute. Palea elliptic; 3 -veined; without keels.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Anthers 2 (bisexual), or 3 (male). Ovary glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.
Distribution
Europe: eastern. Asia-temperate: Siberia and Soviet far east. North America: Subarctic, western Canada, and eastern Canada.
Reference
Aveneae. N Amer Fl 1994.

Native to:

Alaska, Kamchatka, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manitoba, North European Russi, Northwest Territorie, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec, Sakhalin, West Siberia, Yakutskiya, Yukon

Anthoxanthum arcticum Veldkamp appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Nov 1, 1988 Beechey, F.W. [s.n.], Nova Scotia Hierochloe pauciflora K000838026
Nov 1, 1988 Parry, W. [s.n.] Hierochloe pauciflora K000838027
Andersson, N.J. [s.n.] Hierochloe pauciflora K000838024
Kjellman, F.R. [s.n.] Hierochloe pauciflora K000838028
Beverley [s.n.], Nova Scotia Hierochloe pauciflora K000838030
Parry, W. [s.n.] Hierochloe pauciflora K000838023 isotype
Parry, W. [s.n.] Hierochloe pauciflora K000838022
Parry, W. [s.n.], Northern America Hierochloe pauciflora K000838029
Cheyne, A. [s.n.] Hierochloe pauciflora K000838025

First published in Blumea 30: 349 (1985)

Not accepted by

  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Hierochloe pauciflora.]

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Malyschev, L.I. & Peschkova, G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 2: 1-362. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  • Fedorov, A.A. (ed.) (1999). Flora of Russia. The European part and bordering regions 1: 1-546. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Broekfield.
  • Kharkevich, S.S., Probatova, N.S. & Novikov, V.S. (1985). Sosudistye rasteniia sovetskogo Dal’nego Vostoka 1: 1-383. Izd-vo "Nauka," Leningradskoe otd-nie, Leningrad.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.

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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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