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|accepted_name=Arctous alpina
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Niedenzu
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=11: 144. 1889 ,
}}
|common_names=Torpedoberry
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arbutus alpina
|authority=Linnaeus
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arctostaphylos alpina
|authority=(Linnaeus) Sprengel
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mairania alpina
|authority=(Linnaeus) Desvaux
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Arbutoideae;Arctous;Arctous alpina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Arbutoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Arctous]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Arctous alpina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 405
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>3–20(–30) cm; twigs terete, with persistent old leaves or petioles. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole winged, 1–4 mm, ciliate on margins, or hairy; blade obovate to oblanceolate, 4–15 × 0.7–8(–20) mm, base attenuate-cuneate, decurrent onto petiole, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded, surfaces rugose, glabrous or hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–4(–7)-flowered; bracts ovate, membranous. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.1–0.6 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals pale green or yellow, 0.8–1.2 mm, apex acute; corolla yellow, whitish, or green (pale yellowish green), 3.5–4.5 mm, lobes recurved, greenish, rounded, 0.5 mm, glabrous; stamens 1–2 mm; anthers reddish, becoming yellow, 0.6–0.7 mm, horns 0.1–0.2 mm. <b>Fruits</b> black-purple, 6–9 mm diam. <b>Pyrenes</b> 2.7–4.6 × 2–3.6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 26, 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early summer.
|habitat=Tundra, gravelly beach ridges, lichen heaths, open, boggy, coniferous woods, dry, wind-swept and snow-free fellfields in arctic and alpine tundra
|elevation=0-2500 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Maine;N.H.;n Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>In Greenland, <i>Arctous alpina</i> reaches 77º north latitude on the eastern coast.</p>
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name=Arctous alpina
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Niedenzu
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Arctostaphylos alpina;Mairania alpina
|basionyms=Arbutus alpina
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering early summer.
|habitat=Tundra, gravelly beach ridges, lichen heaths, open, boggy, coniferous woods, dry, wind-swept and snow-free fellfields in arctic and alpine tundra
|elevation=0-2500 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Maine;N.H.;n Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_764.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Arbutoideae
|genus=Arctous
|species=Arctous alpina
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